Zofia Kossak, an acclaimed writer and journalist, moved to Warsaw in 1939 in order to engage in resistance to the German occupiers. Starting in 1941 she ran the Catholic underground organization…
Prior to Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Irena Sendler worked in various departments of Warsaw’s social welfare office. The persecution of Jews in Warsaw began when the Germans…
Pavel Gerasimchik lived with his wife Lyubov and their children Klavdiya, Galina, and Nikolay, as well as their foster daughter Zinaida in Szubków (today Shubkiv). He owned a small farm.
German…
Ruža Fuchs lived with her husband Otto in Zagreb (Yugoslavia, today Croatia). She was a Germanist and had German ancestors. Her husband was a journalist. She gave birth to her first daughter Silva in…
Kama Ginkas lived with his mother Manya and his father, Miron Ginkas, a physician, in Kaunas.
He was still a baby when in August 1941 the family had to move into the ghetto. Over the next two…
When the German Reich invaded Poland in 1939, Maksymilian Boruchowicz, a journalist and author from Kraków, fled to Lwów (Poland, today Lviv, Ukraine). Starting in the fall of 1941, Boruchowicz, a…
Vesna Domany was born in May 1941 to a Jewish family in Zagreb. Only one month earlier, the fascist organization Ustasha took power in the “Independent State of Croatia” and began persecuting the…
Isaak Khomut, a grain merchant, lived with his wife Polina and their daughters Hanele and Laura in Tuczyn (today Tuchyn). When the German occupation started in July 1941, Ukrainian nationalists…
Polina Khomut was married to Isaak Khomut, a Jewish grain merchant. They had two daughters, Hanele and Laura, and lived in Tuczyn (today Tuchyn).
When German troops attacked the region in July…
The lawyer Stanisław Dobrowolski lived in Krakow. After the city was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in 1939, he went underground. When a Krakow section of the underground organization Żegota…
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