David visits the office that used to belong to...

  • YES

  • David visits the office that used to belong to his former employer. He wants to get his old job back. Mrs. Janina Joblanska is in charge now. She tells him that she is not allowed to hire Jews but she tries to persuade her boss to hire David as a translator. He gets the job.
    He comes home very happy but sees Sophie crying. Her father died last night in the sanatorium.

  • 1939-11-00
  • 1939-11-00
  • early November 1939
  • before formation of the ghetto
  • business, private life / daily life
  • Intelligentsia, Poles, death, Jews

  • The memories of David Gilbert are written by Tim Shortridge and Michael D. Frounfelter.

  • 47-48

  • Related people:

    • Goetzel Sophie

      She came from a Polish- Jewish family, living for some time in Germany. Before the war she studied in France, where...

    • Gilbert Goetzel David

      In Paris he met his wife-Sophie. He and Sophie left Germany in 1935 to escape anti-Semitism and the Nazis. They move...

    • Jabłońska Janina

      The German Commissar; persuades her boss to hire David Gilbert as a translator.

    • Walfisz Unknown

      Sophie Goetzel's father. He died in sanitarium in October 1939.