Dziennik z podziemia (An Underground Diary)

A member of Bund, escaped from the ghetto through sewers in 1944.

managerial activist of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) unit

A acquaintance of the Bermans.

Lived in Izebelin with the Grynbergs. Suffered from itch.

A reliable doctor, a paediatrician. Treated Mrs. Herman, Mrs. K and her child, one of the Woznicki twins. Single-han...

A caretaker of a house in Krucza Street. When they were smuggling the Fikses used to go there to be put up for 2 zlo...

A surgeon. Rescued Slobodzki's wife and Tursz (provided the latter with hiding in his flat).

Daughter of the Kenigsweins, born during the war.

The Kenigsweins' daughter. Bermanowa managed to find a hideout for her with Staskowa's help.

The owner of a villa in Falenica (outside the ghetto). The Bermans stayed there for one day in August 1941. On the d...

Herman Kirszenbaum's wife. An activist of the YIVO ( Institute For Jewish Research).

A communist.

A Jewish woman. Shared a flat with the Bermans at Krasinskiego Street No. 21.

Adolf Rudnicki's friend. Went to the Hotel Polski

Roman Kramsztyk's wife. Her husband was a well-known painter. The author inherited her black skirt.

A teacher. After the war she was a headmistress of a district school. Gave shelter to the Bermans after they had lef...

Kuszunski's wife.

Poale Zion activist.

In hiding in Promyka Street.

Basia Temkin stays in contact with her sister in Lodz thanks to his help.

An Ukrainian. SS-Sturmbrigade RONA commander.

The leader of the Jewish communists in the Warsaw ghetto.

Samuel Kenigswein's wife. Was rescued by dr Zabinski.

A carpenter from Praga. Had three children. Was rescued by dr Zabinski.

General Zionists (Zionist Organization in Poland) activist in the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the directors of the America...

A Pole.

Representative of the Jewish Social Self-Help. Each day he went to the 'Aryan side' to get orders from the Transfers...

Mieczyslaw Berman's wife. Died in the ghetto, most probably in 1942.

Edwarda Ringelblum's liaison; Jewish Military Union (ZZW) messenger on the "Aryan side". Before the outbre...

A major. People's Army (Armia Ludowa) commander of Warsaw.

An acquaintance of the Bermans.

The head of the unit VI (Security) in the People's Army (AL) headquarters

The author of 'Dziennik z podziemia' (Diary from the Underground). Got secondary and primary education thanks to her...

Irena Krenicka-Bermanowa's acquaintance.

A General Zionist.

The author's sister.

The author's sister; was 12 years older than the author. During the First World War she took care of the author, mad...

Rented a flat to the Bermans. Her daughter suffered from TB.

A doctor. Kanabus' school-mate.

Szoszana Kossower's cousin. She was raped by the householder who came to arrest her.

Activist of Poale Zion-Right. Lived with the Majer family at Leszno Street No. 36. Founder and one of the headmaster...

Aryan endorser (the flat for the hiding Jews was rented on her surname). Wachalska's sister. Rawicka lived at her pl...

An outstanding worker for voluntary causes, protector of political prisoners during reactionary rule in the inter-wa...

A director of RGO.

Psychologist, educationalist in Jewish schools, she died in the ghetto

In the ghetto he was a publisher of 'Tomor' books, in the ghetto he collected precious Jewish books which he wanted...

Philosophy student. Doctor, he worked ina hospital at Stawki Street. Je wrote a memoir on his imprisonment in Pawiak

Historyk żydowski, działacz Poalej Syjon a później Ogólnych Syjonistów. Poseł na Sejm RP. Wpływowy działacz w getcie...

A Polish artist. During the war her house was a shelter for many Jews.

Doctor. He took care of ten Jews. He was connected with Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews)

works in a hospital

A boy from a group of cigarette vendors of the Three Crosses Square. He was rescued by Zysman. Died.

Jedna z "trzech Gracji". Zginęła podczas Powstania. Członek KW PPR, organizatorka pomocy dla partyzantów G...

She was a member of the underground of the Warsaw ghetto. She jumped out of the train going to Treblinka. She had go...

Captain of the People's Army (Armia Ludowa)

A girl saved by Maria Grzegorzewska.

Active in Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews). During the Warsaw Uprising, he was a district governor (deputy of the di...

Nina Assordobraj's sister

Sak's wife.

An Italian. Senior caretaker in the Italian embassy.

a Jew, a deputy of the illiterate chair of the Izabelin village council.

Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews) co-worker

Author's neighbour at Krasinskiego Street No. 21.

The most passionate reader of Bermanowa's library. Sent from the kitchen to GG, took four books at once.

A lawyer. A prisoner of the camp at Trawniki. After Ringelblum's departure he continued to write a diary of events....

She replaced the author in her job in the library.

Plutonowy policji granatowej, z brygady wypadowej I komisariatu Kripo. Za współpracowanie z Gestapo Szwed został zas...

A leader of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). Died in the Trawniki camp.

wife of Marek (Mojzesz) Passensztajn

A psychologist. Active in helping Jews. An acquaintance of Halina Bajer.

Helping Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews). He transported doctor Ringelblum from the camp in Trawniki. Armia Krajowa...

A distinguished Jewish writer.

a barrister, an activist of the Folk Party (Stronnictwo Ludowe) and Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews)

One of the 'three graces'. She took care of the Jews. An archaeologist, after the war, she became one of the heads o...

A gynaecologist. The author of the diary from the ghetto and the Pawiak prison, which is kept in Berman's archives.

A journalist of a Jewish origin.

The mayor of Garwolin, who took care of thousands of Jews. He neglected financial matters, so the Bermans limited hi...

Teodor's brother. He fought during the Warsaw Uprising in the Old Town. He got to Srodmiescie through the sewers.

a parish priest the president of the RGO (Central Welfare Council) in Zaborow.

Eight weeks after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising she roamed with her two daughters around the area of Warsaw. She l...

A worker, caretaker of a flat in Grochow rented by the Berman couple. He had two children: four-year-old Basia and o...

The manager of Zegota's 'legalising office.' A bureaucrat. As early as the beginning of 1940 he busied himself with...

Aniutka Berman's husband. A doctor.(B.T.-B.).

One of the Bankier brothers' wife

An influential RGO activist RGO from Zambrów. A heiress. She lost three children in the Warsaw Uprising.

He helped rescuing those staying in the hideout in Promyka Street.

Maria Sawicka's sister; Rawicka lived at her place.

The author's friend from the Free University('Wszechnica'). Together with her parents she left the camp for 'foreign...

A 'Shomer' activist. Killed on the 'Aryan side' (Basia Temkin-Bermanowa)

A lawyer. A secretary of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto. During the Warsaw Uprising he was a soldier of the Jewis...

An activist of Haszomer Hacair. He died on the 'Aryan side' (B.T.-B.). The author suspects that he was denounced by...

One of the 'quintuplets'. An activist of Poale Zion-Left. Hersz Wasser's wife, member of Ringelblum's Archive's team...

One of the 'quintuplets'; a Poale Zion -Left's activist. A secretary of Ringelblum's Underground Archive, under the...

The mother of Franka, Ludka, Halina and Pawel. Hide in the shelter for the incurably ill, but she had to run away fr...

She applied for the position of o teacher in the manor from which she was quickly expelled. She went to Hanover with...

A sister of Franka and Pawel, did not look "properly".

sister of Franka and Pawel Wasseman; the first of the family to leave the ghetto.

brother of Franka, Halina and Ludka. He was hiding in a dungeon, nobody had access to

a Communist activist, an officer of the People's Army (AL). After the liberation he became a major in the Polish Arm...

Mieczyslaw Watraszek's wife. (B.T.-B.).

A historian. Stefania Sempolowska's collaborator. Committed suicide, because she was afraid of being discovered on t...

A theatre director. He was the chairman of the Jewish Social Self-Help (ZSS) and the Social Security Institution (ZU...

An engineer; Mieczyslaw Witraszek's friend

A young housemistress in the sanatorium in Falenica, graduated from the Jewish teacher training college in Vilna. Sh...

An artist in Warsaw theatres; communist activist. He took care of a few dozen Jews (B.T.-B.).

A barrister. One of the leading activist of Jewish Social Self-Hel. He went everyday to the 'Aryan side' to the Tran...

A psychologist. She died during the deportation action.

He was deported to Treblinka on 23 August 1942 where he worked as a carpenter building gas chambers. He managed to e...

An organizer of the underground, a leader of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) on the "Aryan side" (B.T.-...

A social activist from Wloclawek. He stayed in the Warsaw Ghetto (B.T.-B.). During the occupation he was a member of...

A mother of the twins Zofia and Ludwika. She hid with them at Felicja Felhorska's place for a several months. During...

Zofia Woznicka's twin sister. A translator of English literature. An author of books for children and young people.

Ludwika Wicher's twin sister. A translator of French literature, a critic and an author of books for children and yo...

Irena Solska's cousin, she rented a flat to the Bragmans. A doctor (B.T.-B.).

A socialist activist. A secretary of the the Council to Help the Jews (RPZ) in Cracow.

MP Grynbaum's sister. She was of Jewish descent. Teofil Wojenski's wife (B.T.-B.).

A socialist educational activist. During the occupation active in the Polish democratic underground movement (B.T.-B...

A lawyer, during the war a member of the AK (Home Army), the head of the Jewish Section of the Bureau for Informatio...

A photographer who helped retouching photographs sent to the author. Cesia Herman's brother-in-law.

A geography professor who helped the Jews. (P.Sz.)

Soldier of the People's Army (Armia Ludowa). Killed by the Russians in Czestochowa (P.Sz.)

Boy with a scooter.

Smuggler. She took care of the Bermans in Buraków.

Author of the works stored by the author. Unidentified person (P. Sz.).

Messenger of the Centos (the Central Organisation for Orphan Care).

He came from Miedzeszyn. Fusswerg took care of him; killed in an air raid

Hid with the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) group in the shelter in Promyka Street.

Girl saved by Zysman. Lodzia Hamerman's friend.

A boy. Author of a work stored by the author. Unidentified person (P. Sz.).

Owner of the flat in Dolna Street. Miraculously avoided being killed by the Gestapo.

A person in the ghetto whom the author contacted by telephone.

Author of a letter to Rogulska from the camp for 'foreigners' in Hanover, cited by the author.

A boy from cigarette vendors' (papierosiarze) group, which Zysman took care of. He was suspected of collaborating wi...

Berland's and Hofer's host. Scum and tippler.

Wounded during the Uprising, lying in the Bermans' basement.

She gave the author a beret with a veil ("żalobka").

A girl scout. She was a messenger, during the Warsaw Uprising she went through the sewers first to the Old Town and...

A smuggler. She took care of the Bermans in Burakow.

a housewife, the Grynbergs move to her place from Izabelin. Grynberg treated her husband before the war.

Elster's hosekeeper in Narbutta Street. Went with smuggled goods to her relatives in Grojec.

Boy who was selling Berman's books for children. He stored them at home in Karmelicka Street. He was Sztajnberg's fr...

General Zionist.

the doctor who saved Berman's wife

a Jewish doctor.

He took part together with Szwed in arresting Adolf Berman on 4 January 1944.

Denounced Adolf Berman. The author met her for the first time in 1943. She wrote about her, that she was about 45 ye...

Author's friend

An engineer, before the war co-owned a furniture factory at Gesia Street No. 30, which was taken over by Ostdeutsche...

the head of The People's Army (Armia Ludowa) staff; he was engineer-fireworks maker

A barrister and Bund activist. During the occupation he was hiding on the "Aryan side" in Warsaw. He died...

Professor of geography, Basia Berman worked for him. An anti-Semite.

Dror and He-Halutz activist. During the war, active in the underground of the Warsaw ghetto; in the ghetto uprising...

Leon Feiner's acquaintance; journalist, one of the leaders of the Democratic Party.

Survived the Majdanek concentration camp.

Bermans' housekeeper at Krasinskiego Street No. 21, Stefania Sempolowska's cousin

Jozef Gitler's daughter. Survived the war in the concentration camp for foreigners in Bergen-Belsen.

A graduate of the Polish Free University.

Carpenter from Radzymin. Engaged in smuggling.

She was hiding with the Bermans in a cellar in Felinskiego Street. She was over thirty years old. She was the wife o...

Zygmunt Grynberg's son. In 1944 he was almost 5 years old.

Zygmunt Grynberg's wife.

A ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) messenger on the 'Aryan side'. Survived the war

Typesetter, friend of Szur. Worked in the storehouse team at Leszno Street No. 2.

She co-operated with the RPZ (Council for Aid to Jews). After the war she emigrated to the United States.

Sister-in-law of Halina Gertner. She was betrayed by the doctor before the Arbeitsamt commission when she wanted to...

ex-publisher, Szur's acquaintance; poor, skinny, reddish hair in a worn hat; he had a bookshop on the corner of Fran...

the wife of Goldman, the carpenter, gave birth to a child during the war.

A barrister. An activist of General Zionists (Zionist Organization in Poland) from Cracow. A member of the presidium...

Jewess. Wife of Bronislaw Kowalski, commander of People's Army (AL) district .

a prominent Zionist activist during the interwar period Poland. Member of parliament.

Warsaw doctor. Related by marriage to Jakub Berman's family. He hid at Marymont. He wrote about Treblinka, the work...

Appears in Basia Berman's memories. Connected with hiding Jews.

Dyrektorka Instytutu Pedagogicznego dla nauczycieli szkół specjalnych, znakomita uczona polska, autorka książki &quo...

Finished the law faculty and geology faculty, where he became a professor. [Zelenski] Boy's acquaintance.

Sister of Hersz (a Jewish poet and Bund member). During the war she escaped to the USSR and the contact with her was...

A Jewish Police (Order Service) officer. He wrote a paper on the police activity. He survived the war. Since January...

the Bermans co-operate with him

Adolf Berman's assistant in the Warsaw Ghetto, responsible for the finances in the Centos (Central Organization for...

Jozef Gitler's wife. Survived the war in the concentration camp for foreigners in Bergen-Belsen.

Doctor in the Berson and Bauman Children's Hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto. Survived the war

Activist of the Poale Zion-Right in the Warsaw Ghetto. Fought in the ghetto uprising.

During the Soviet attack on occupied Warsaw she managed to cross the river Vistula by boat in order to help the Sovi...

Activist of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP), active in the underground movement. Died in the Warsa...

The Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) director. He survived in the bunker located among ruins. Af...

a Pole, co-operates with Jewish National Committee (ŻKN).

A librarian. She helped the Jews.

The owner of the office at Miodowa Street No. 11

A social activist in the ghetto. A Bund member

Rawicki's daughter. A Bund activist in the ghetto, she studied in the Dror clandestine junior high school.

Ringelblum's wife. She worked in the store-house unit at Leszno Street No. 2

A historian, activist, author of the archive. The Bermans take care of him, when he hides in the bunker.

A writer. In the spring of 1944 collaborated with Berman on the poetry volume 'From the Depths' ('Z otchlani').

A fighter of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB).

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. A Bund activist. After the war she left for New York. The bel...

A Jewish doctor. She got a stamp from a Polish doctor with a similar name, and could write prescriptions in her name.

He hides, the Bermans take care of him.

Sekretarka Rady.Brała udział w posiedzeniu "Żegoty" na temat pomocy dla powstania w getcie (kwiecień 1943)...

She graduated from the psychology department of Warsaw University. She spent a few months in the ghetto and worked i...

An engineer. He was supposed to take command of a Jewish insurgent unit in Warsaw (buy finally he didn't). He tried...

A psychologist, Polish underground activist, actively participated in helping the Jews. She was murdered by the Gest...

A photographer, who helped to retouch pictures that were sent to the author. He did this through Zysman-Ziemian.

A boy.

Bermans' neighbour in Izabelin. She was undoubtedly Jewish. Her daughter died in the Warsaw Uprising.

She co-operated with Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews).

A professor.

Felek Rajszczak's daughter. A shiksa.

She worked in a sanatorium in Falenica, organised care work

A boy with a 'bad appearance'. He underwent plastic surgery, in order to get rid of the consequences of circumcision...

She was Polish. The head of municipal women's employment agency, she rescued many Jewish women, finding them a job a...

A writer, author of a few novels and stories. He kept diaristic materials. Berman's good friend.

Basia Hammermann's brother. A prisoner in the labour camp in Trawniki.

Engineer Rychter's son.

A leader of Bund on the " 'Aryan side'.

Maria Adler's husband, a doctor. Survived the war.

A Jewish kapo in Majdanek. He hanged 17 people (including his own brother) with his own hands.

Ph.D. in psychotechnology. She took care of the Woznicki twins.

A house painter. Before the war employed 4 helpers. Bencjon and Estera's father.

Belonged to the group of cigarette vendors ('papierosiarze') from the Trzech Krzyzy (Three Crosses) Square.

Bencjon Fiks' sister. Member of Haszomer Hacair.

sister of an activist of Poale Zion-Left; she helped in the underground; after the war she stayed in America; he bec...

In the shelter in Promyka Street

Prominent activist of the Polish democratic underground movement. Wife of former ambassador to the United States - T...

activist of Poale Zion-Left in the Warsaw Ghetto, a member of the Anti-fascist block; deported to Treblinka during t...

Henryk Fiszgrund's son. After the war lived in Warsaw.

a Bund activist from Cracow.

A teacher.

she worked as a nurse helper in the Warsaw ghetto in The Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital; from March 1943 on...

author's messenger

one of 'quintuplets', a member of Poale Zion-Left; he died in the Warsaw Uprising; commander of one of the ghetto in...

One of the brothers. He lived in Szczygla Street.

a functionary in the Reinhardt Action [Einsatz Reinhardt] , a police unit formed in 1941 to carry out the exterminat...

A Warsaw barrister, defence attorney in political cases. He died in the ghetto (B.T.-B)

Adolf Berman's older sister. Pawel Wolek's - a doctor- wife. She died in the ghetto , most probably in August 1942 t...

The author's husband. He completed the Michal Kreczmar Gymnasium (junior high school). He studied psychology, histor...

A barrister She was a well-known Communist activist in the prewar Poland. She stayed in Lvov between 1939 and 1941,...

General Zionists member; he was a member of Oneg Sabbath; from December 1942 a member of the Jewish National Committ...

A writer from Cracow, arrested in Lvov in 1942. The leader of an underground organization in the Janow camp, command...

Tuwia Borzykowski's friend. She survived the war.

The Jewish Social Committee (ZKS) secretary.

Działacz Droru, he´Chaluc i Poalej Syjon. W Radomsku założył konspiracyjne komórki tych organizacji. W 1940 został w...

a distinguished activist in the field of helping Jews; a certified translator from German, French and English; a psy...

Adolf Berman's older brother. A communist activist. He left Poland in September 1939 and spent the war in the USSR.

a Jewish activist of the RPZ (Council for Aid to Jews)

Diana Blumenfeld's sister-in-law. She worked in P. as a dentist.

A doctor. The first child in the care of the Bermans.

The host's of the flat in Szustra Street cousin. A young, limphatic blonde. She was an anti-Semitic thief. Stole the...

Adolf Berman's sister.

An RGO (Central Welfare Council) worker in Pruszkow.

Arrested by the 'Blue' police during the Warsaw Uprising. Until the outbreak of the uprising she hid, her hostess, h...

A Poale Zion-Left activist. Thanks to the help of the Bermans he escaped from the Janow camp. Together with his wife...

The owner of the shop at the corner of Filtrowa/ Sedzikowska Street. She took care of Zysman. A 65-year-old woman wh...

A worker for voluntary causes from Wloclawek, non-party

A psychologist, before the war she used the library where the author worked.

he wrote a work on experiences during occupation, which was partly printed in 'Przelom'; he survived the war, lives...

A doctor, Adolf Berman's brother. He was a surgeon, during the Polish-German War of 1939 he worked as a doctor for t...

After the Warsaw Uprising she hid in the ruins. The Ukrainians found her, and she was deported to a camp.

A doctor in The Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital. Since January 1943 on the 'Aryan side' as a Jewish Fighting...

A Jewish actress who hid on the 'Aryan' side'. She survived the war (B.T.-B.).

The doctor who saved people from the shelter in Promyka Street.

A socialist. He helped the Jews (B.T.-B.). He commanded Civil Defence of the Old Town during the Warsaw Uprising. He...

She found Bermanowska a flat for Watraszek and she acted as a go-between in renting living quarters for Elster

Bermans' housekeeper in their flat at Iganska Street, No. 7

Maria Temkin's husband. A widower from Lodz. Before the wedding with Maria he pretended that he had a huge fortune,...

Szur's friend, living with him in a room at Leszno Street No. 56

Helena Merenholc's sister.

Helena Merenholc's mother. She died a martyr's death.

Helena Merenholc's brother. Deported to Germany.

Roth's landlord, a tailor. He had a heart condition

An architect, member of the Polish Socialist Party, co-founder of the Democratic Party (P.Sz.)

A German captain. An exceptionally spiteful character.

a functionary in the sanatorium in Falenica

Ryszard Moszkowicz's mother

Ryszard Moszkowski's father

an engineer, he died (B.T.-B.).

Maria Temkin-Majer's daughter

The leader of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). He died in the camp in Trawniki. He came from Lodz.

He helped Jews to hide. He died at the hands of Gestapo; a musician and composer

Information officer. Extremely praised by the author for his exceptional intelligence, courage and honesty. When the...

a doctor, Alina's mother

Dr. Margolis's daughter from Lodz, a Bund member. In Warsaw ghetto a trainee at a nursing school. From January 1943...

A psychologist. She died during the great deportation.

Basia and Adolf Bermans' charge or collaborator

a messenger of Jewish National Committee (ZKN)

The Bermans' neighbour at Krasinskiego Street No. 21. A godly old lady, going to church every day - in spite of the...

Lotta Wegmeister's charge; after the Warsaw Uprising failure he became the head of the reserve hospital at the Sanit...

One of the 'three Graces'. Came form Lvov. Survived the war. At her place (Krasinskiego Street No. 18) the author hi...

A member of Stronnictwo Demokratyczne (the Democratic Party). Secretary of Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews).

A psychologist.

A graduate of the philosophy department at Uniwersytet im. Jana Kazimierza (Jan Kazimierz University) in Lvov. In th...

In the ghetto she worked as a labourer, on the "Aryan side" as a manicurist. She helped many Jews.

Baker from Powazki. The Berman family's neighbour in Spalenie.

Librarian. During the war, clerk in the Department of Population Registration in Warsaw Town Hall, she worked in the...

charge of the ZKN (Jewish National Committee)

A messenger of the underground. Wilner's fiancée .

Worked in the Jewish cemetary during as long as the ghetto existed. Wrote a dissertation on that. Berland's acquaint...

Carried letters to Ringelblum to Trawniki. Janina Lakutowicz's acquaintance. Lived in Paris after the war.

Cooperated with the author.

Aleksander Hedelsman's wife. During the war she passed off as her husband's sister-in-law. After the war she emigrat...

A functionary of Einsatz Reinhardt - a police detachment formed in autumn 1941 for extermination actions of the Jews...

A wife of a doctor (probably Eufemiusz Hermnan). Was dr Aleksandra K.'s maid.

Ringelblum's sister. Lived in Poland after the war. When the uprising broke out she was eight months pregnant - want...

Stays with the Bermans in Zoliborz.

A journalist. Actively took part in the action to aid the Jews. The representative of the Coordinating Commission to...

An SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer. Einsatz Reinhard's commander; was in Sonderkommando der Sipo Umsiedlung - a police squad con...

a Dror activist; one of the leaders of the Warsaw ghetto underground; editor of the underground press; co-founder of...

Dr. Czerniakow's wife. She took care of many Jews.

The chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat. He committed suicide on the second day of the Great Action.

a captain

the Bermans' neighbour at Krasinskiego Street No. 21. The biggest rowdy and bawler of the backyard.

an engineer; he lived in Sapiezynska Street; he took care of several dozen of Jews; military aviation colonel; a fug...

Jan Czechowski's daughter

Jan Czechowski's wife; a mystic, endlessly wailing litanies

An engineer. He was a hearing-impaired, patriarchal despot, The Bermans rushed into his flat during the escape from...

Jan Czechowski'a son. Subdued by the father; he hated his father

A notary. He had an office at Miodowa Street No. 11, where the author met with Bucholcowa

Amchowiec. Wuj Wilnera. Wrócił z lasów i błąkał się na Grochowie w okolicach fermy szkoleniowej dla Dror he´Chaluc.

One of the directors in Joint. He was in the camp for 'foreigners' in Hanover.

Lived with the Bermans in Zoliborz during the retreat of the Germans.

A cigarette vendor ('papierosiarz') at Triple Cross Square (Plac Trzech Krzyzy). The boy was rescued by Zysman. He w...

a psychologist

A Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) messanger on the "Aryan side". After the war settled in Tel Aviv. Jur...

An art historian. Died

Author's messenger. He looked as a typical Jew, but he was blond. At the end of the war he took care for more than h...

A clerk in the Centos (the Central Organization for Orphan Care). A daughter of a well-known barrister from Warsaw,...

Szymon Zajczyk's wife.

A sociologist, cooperated with the ZKN (Jewish National Committee) care cells.

She lent a black goat fur collar to the author. Stanislaw Ossowski's wife. A sociologist, cooperated with ZKN (Jewis...

daughter of Maurycy Orzech, Bund activist. She fought in The city centre (Srodmiescie)during the Warsaw Uprising.

Journalist, activist of Jewish and Polish trade unions. Member of Bund Central Committee. In July 1942, left the ghe...

a priest. National Democrat (a member or follower of this right-wing Polish political party), anti-Semite and a hool...

The director of the zoological gardens in Warsaw, thanks to which many Jews survived. After the war he became a prof...

The Bermans' foster child. Rescued by Nagorzewska, who was a teacher and lived in Warsaw at Szaserow Street No. 60.

Zabinski's wife, a writer. Helped her husband hide Jews (P.Sz.).

One of the 'quintuplets'. An acivist of Poale Zion-Left and the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB). Died during the...

He lived at Chmielna Street No. 102. Pola and Bela Elster's brother.

Dr Lewicki's house-keeper.

A pianist.

One of the leaders of the uprising in the ghetto. A Bund activist, a member of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) co...

One of five children. An activist of Poale Zion - Left. During the occupation in the leadership of the party in the...

Pola's sister. After the war left for Israel. Collaborated with Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews) and the Jewish Nati...

A Catholic activist. President of RGO (Central Welfare Council).

An underground messenger. She hid Jews for money. The Bermans negotiated with her about Ringelblum.

he belonged to the group of cigarette vendors (papierosiarz) from Trzech Krzyzy Square; saved by Zysman; he took car...

Dudzinski's wife.

Zygmunt Grynberg's acquaintance; director of a department in the Ministry of Health

A smuggler. Took care of the Berman family in Burakow.

a garage, where the Bermans wanted to build a bunker

Kilma Fusswerg is blackmailed

Siedziba dowództwa AL.

a cafe

the most important street in the ghetto

old books and scrap paper sellers stood there

there was the Centos (the Central Organisation for Orphan Care) office

a flat assigned to the Majers

there was a two-room Szur's flat. He gathered several thousand volumes of books from Grosser's library and 'Zycie' t...

Irena Krenicka had a room in this building

the Centos (the Central Organisation for Orphan Care) workers's block, the authors' last flat in the ghetto

a church

Bucholtz-Bukolska's flat

a library - on of the branches of the Public Library

Basia Bermanowa meets with messengers

This author was there at the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising

'Rogatka'

old books and scrap paper vendors stood there

the author's first flat on the 'Aryan side', at the end of 1942.

St. Joseph Institution

'Quintuplets' den ('meta'). They kept 'sweets' ('cukierki'), i.e. weapons there.

The Berman family's fourth flat.

Books storeroom was in the cellar of the house.

the suthor's sister lived there.

headquarters of the Security Service of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa)

A reading room.

A bazaar.

Philipps' sweet shop.

Colony II of the Warsaw Housing Co-operative (WSM)

a room in the convent of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection; during the Warsaw Uprising an insurgen...

The Three Graces' flat, which was one of the centres of the Communist conspiracy. 'The Three'.

Colony IV of the Warsaw Housing Co-operative (WSM). The headquaters and barracks of the People's Army (AL) were situ...

The author and her husband's seventh flat.

Rawicki's daughter was in hiding there.

Flats 10; notary Chelmicki's office, where Janina Bucholc had her room

Róg Miłej i Zamenhofa - miejsce selekcji w czasie akcji "kotła".

Stefan Zolkiewski's flat, in which Jozef Onyszkiewicz was in hiding for some time. In the flat next-door Onyszkiewic...

'Tollbooth', exit from the ghetto

Adolf Berman is blackmailed.

a Centos (the Central Organisation for Orphan Care) boarding house

'Zycie' library

the Italian embassy

in one of the buildings the Bermans wanted to rent a room to work in

Bermans' third flat on the 'Aryan side'

a bridge connecting houses, Zoliborz could be seen from it

'Tollbooth'

'Tollbooth'

Goldfarb's bookstore; he also sold a hot tea to beggars and snatcher s ('chapers')

a bookshop run by Goldfarb

Fiks's flat

second-hand books and scrap paper vendors stood there.

A 'Tavern for ladies' ('Gospoda dla Pan') was situated there.

a cafe

they come back to the ghetto from Otwock

Prison for Jews from Auschwitz which were to pull down houses that remained after the ghetto uprising

the OBW 'shop', Landau was one of its directors

a narrow street leading to the wall in Okopowa Street

a shelter

old books and scrap paper sellers stood there

Adolf Berman is blackmailed

the Wyspianski Lending Library

Basia Bermanowa meets Anita Orzech

Gitler-Barski's wife was to come to this address after leaving the ghetto.

A school, where letters concerning the people deported to the labour camp in Hanover were to be sent.

the Chemical Institute

Adolf Berman is blackmailed

the Bermans rented a flat in this building - from Dr Helena Wojciechowska