Okopowa From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Okopowa
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  • business, private life / daily life
  • the rich, Poles, aid, home owners

  • house owned by Maria Rozenberg (Franka Rakower); she promised to give it to Ewa Leszkiewiczowa, who hid her on the 'Aryan side'; it was demolished after the Warsaw Uprising

  • Yad Vashem Archives 03/3481
    Maria Rozenberg (first married name Franka Rakower, née Franka Brodaty, born in Warsaw) describes her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, escape from the transport to Treblinka and experiences in hide - in Warsaw and its surroundings. Cursory description of the staying in the ghetto; discovering the hideout during the Ghetto Uprising; escape form the train to Majdanek; hiding in the country; the 'Aryan side' in Warsaw; work as religious education teacher in the country; reclaiming the property after the war; work in the Jewish Committee in Warsaw; seeking family; emigration. Testimony recorded in April 1971 by Miriam Thau. Typescript, pp. 1-24, size: 290 x 210 mm, in Polish.

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