Nowolipki From Warsaw

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  • From Warsaw
  • Nowolipki
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  • deportation
  • German operations, social/communal
  • address, collaboration, Jewish police, deportation

  • Head of the Jewish Police, Jozef Erlich called 'Josele Kapota', lived there. Because of that, the house was temporarily not included in deportation. The author writes that Jozef was in charge of the deportation actions. In fact, he was not a Jewish Policeman, but one of the notorious German collaborators.

  • Memoirs of a young girl, who spent the beginning of the war and occupation with her family in Warsaw. She suffered the loss of most of her friends and relatives there. After staying almost totally alone, she decided to fight for her life in another city - Czestochowa. Living partly in the ghetto, and partly outside it, she co-operates, among others, with the Jewish underground. Thanks to contacts with Poles, she supports and helps her compatriots who live in the ghetto. After the liquidation of the Czestochowa ghetto, she was arrested and then deported to labour in Germany. She started to write her memories there.

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