… August 1, 1944, the Polish Home Army (also known as the underground resistance) began fighting against the German occupiers, in a battle that became known…

… Halina Orlowska, and lodged in the house of her employer, who happened to work with the Polish underground resistance. Regina was able to rent a room…

… West; the severe beatings by S.S. guards and his rescue by a Polish railway man; his solo performance and other symphony concerts in the ghetto by Jewish…

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… severe beatings by S.S. guards and his rescue by a Polish railway man. He details his solo performance and other symphony concerts in the ghetto by Jewish…

… memories of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in July 1942, from which she escaped; her work for the resistance with the National Front; hiding her infant son, and her…

…, DC. This interview is one of 51 oral histories included in the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance.…

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…...until uh 1938. The week before Kristallnacht when they start to arrest all the Jews of Polish background origin, they deported them. Uh the children were…

… train ride headed for the Polish border in 1938; the family's ability to enter Poland because they had family in Łódź; her father's experiences traveling…

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… all the Polish Jews who lived in Germany without any warning. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…

…; being sent with her family on February 15, 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; the camp routine and her work in a plastic pipe factory; the cruelty of the Polish Kapos…

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… Polish Jews, or Russian Jews, or Hungarian Jews. I wasn't. I was not. But I was not even a teenager at that time. Do you recall newspapers at that time…

… ghetto; her march to and life in Płaszów concentration camp; acts of resistance in the camp; efforts to maintain culture amidst the camp's unsanitary and…

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… picked up a book on Polish resistance. And I saw his picture in it. All those years, I had-- You had no idea. --no idea. And he survived the war. And I was…

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… Polish in the concentration camp. So there was little bit of everything. Nothing perfect. And the same thing is now with English. mean understand lot of…

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… hours after the resistance. The camp was a labor/concentration camp devoted to loading V-2's and this, apparently, was the first facility for loading V-2…

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… Stettin. Today it is Polish. JF: At that time it was Germany? WS: Yes. JF: Can you tell me a little bit about your family? WS: My father was a rabbi in…

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… interview ended with Eva reading a poem she wrote in Polish while interned in Maidenek. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…

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…. And it so happened that the sign he gave, whatever it was, was understood by the local people that the Resistance, the French underground, would always…

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… and the children may go back to their homes. Either they were holding us as hostages in case they find maybe the Polish army resisting, whatever the…