Wladka Meed, On Both Sides of the Wall. Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto, transl. Steven Meed, (New York: Unites States Holocaust, 1979).

A watchman of the building at Grochowska Street No. 307, gave shelter to the Miedzyrzecki family in the backyard of...

A barber form Kalisz. In 1940 deported with his wife and two daughters to Warsaw, where they lingered for some time...

Lived with her husband and daughters in barracks for refugees at Leszno Street No. 14.

An activist of the Central Committee of the Bund in Vilnius. Sent to work in Warsaw. Worked in Roerich's shop when t...

A young engineer, for many years worked for the Bund, an activist of a Jewish sports organisation - Morgenstern. Esc...

A one year-old Krysia Klog moved in with a poor Polish family in Pludy (a district of Warsaw). The bare-foot, uncomb...

Zoska Kersh, who had an 'Aryan' appearance, escaped from the ghetto and worked as a seamstress. Wladka found a place...

During a mission for the Combat Organisation Meir Schwartz and Henryk Kleinweiss were captured by Germans and sent t...

An underground activist, worked in a German factory in Pelcery and Rakow. He was the one that Wladka made contact wi...

Zoska's brother, bought out of the camp in Skarzysko. Soon after the happy reunion the Gestapo arrested both of them...

Krysia Klog's mother. Together with her husband managed to escape from a transport to Treblinka. They moved in with...

A Jewish Gestapo, in summer 1942 spread rumours about the upcoming deportation.

member of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR). Helped Jews hiding in the forest near Lomianki obtain transport.

A member of underground Akiba, became famous before the Uprisng when he tried to assasinate Szerynski - the chief of...

The commander of the Jewish Fighting Organisation detachment at Leszno Street No. 74.

One of the surviving fighters from the ghetto. Died with her friends in the forest near Wyszkow.

Before the war she acted in Zukunft in Praga with Wladka, organised a children's group. Loved by her foster children...

Michal's sister, died in a hospital.

Michal Klepfisz's daughter, Catholic nuns gave shelter to her.

Almost all Jewish political factions had their representatives in the Steering Committee. Abrasha Blum, Menachem Kir...

A member of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). Together with his friend they disarmed two SS men, led to a 'hid...

The used to meet in a flat occupied by Dawid Kleen (who was a Bund activist before the war and supplied food to the...

The father of one-year-old Krysia. Together with his wife he managed to escape from a transport to Treblinka. They b...

A doctor, a writer and housemaster. Wrote many excellent children's books. In the ghetto he managed orphanages. Depo...

A Jewish artisan, worked in a German printing house; detained in a labour camp in Radom. Helped to set up an undergr...

A German officer and businessman, owned workshops in the ghetto. Demanded that the Jewish owners of workshops pay hi...

A well-known merchant, who sold shoes.

The bunker at Mila Street No. 29 was surrounded by the Germans, who ordered all Jews to go leave. Nobody did. A Germ...

A merchant trading shoes was his father. In 1943 his wife, who had an 'Aryan look' hid him in the house at Twarda St...

Married a merchant, who sold shoes. Gave him hiding in a house in Twarda Street. Władka's young neighbour.

The best friend of the 19-year-old Dawid Hochberg. Was one of the defenders of the shelter at Mila Street No. 29.

Sara Samorok shows the author a gold chain and two rings. In exchange for this bribe, she counts on work records for...

Samsonowicz is Wladka's supervisor in the Coordinating Commission. In his flat, on the day of the uprising, takes pl...

A Pole. On 5 December 1942 she took part in Catholic funeral of Gina Klepfisz. She lives with her sister, Anna Wacha...

Author's acquaintance.

Author's acquaintance

Inka Schweiger was a messenger recommended by Marek Edelman. She was a paediatrician in a Jewish children's hospital...

A German collaborator, the attempt on his life in 1942 failed.

Another place of meetings was Senatorska Street No. 9. Henryk Fishgrund lived there in a small room on the third flo...

Członek ŻOB w oddziale Anielewicza. Brał udział w odbiciu zamachowca Zandmana.Boruch, przyjaciel Władki, wraz z inny...

A German general, liquidator of the Warsaw Ghetto.

ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organisation) fighter. He and Welwel Rozowski destroyed a car full of SS soldiers.

A member of the Zunkunft, later of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). School-mate of the author.

Wielokrotnie przenosił do getta nielegalne materiały. Tadek potajemnie kupował broń po aryjskiej stronie, ukrywając...

He was the Superintendent of the Jewish Police (Order Service). Izrael Kanal, underground Akiba member' wounds him b...

A member of the illegal Zukunft. In October 1942 he took part in the meeting at Filozof's at Mila Street No.5. Toget...

Member of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). Together with his friend, they disarmed two SS-men, killed them an...

Israel Romanowicz, Szymek Shaintal, Dawid Nowodworski, Henryk Kleinweiss, Rivka Saperstein i Dorka Dembinska - all d...

Israel Romanowicz, Szymek Shaintal, Dawid Nowodworski, Henryk Kleinweiss, Rivka Saperstein i Dorka Dembinska - all d...

Fighters of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) beat him once in the ghetto because he was a Gestapo agent. In th...

Together with his four friends he was arrested by the Home Army in the building on the corner of Zelazna and Chmieln...

Meetings were held also in flat of Dawida Kleen (pre war Bund's activist, former food supplier to the Jewish self he...

She was a teacher, the wife of the famous journalist B. Scheffner. She hid at Ogrodowa Street No. 55 in the summer o...

A famous journalist, Helena Scheffner's husband

Chewka Hodess' husband, son-in-law of the journalist L. Hodess

A four-year-old son of Lajbel Szpichler

Lejb Szpichler's wife, mother of 4 year old son. She had no doubts or suspicions trying to leave Poland through the...

A the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) fighter. Baldy wounded in his stomach during a night skirmish with Germans....

Together with her husband, one-year-old child and sister-in-law she crossed to the "Aryan side".

At the Dubiel family's place were supposed to live: Paula Flinker, Friedrich's wife, Ruta Perenson and her son Mika...

The Author's father, died in 1941 of tuberculosis.

An active socialist, he worked in Lodz, later - in the Warsaw ghetto. He lived with the author at Nowolipie Street N...

The wife of a socialist activist, Szlojma Paw from Lodz. Deported during the First Action.

12 years old Mika Pereson was supposed to live with the Dubiel family. When he managed to get across the ghetto wall...

Mala Piotrkowska and her thirteen-year old daughter Bronka had to leave their hideout and had to find a new one. A h...

Thirteen-year old daughter of Mala Piotrkowska. Because Mala was a Pole, Pero, devoted himself to helping Jews. Alth...

The author's sister. In summer of 1942 she was 16 years old. She worked in the municipal soup kitchen of the Jewish...

author's mother

The author's brother. In June 1942 he was 15 years old. He tried to get a job outside the ghetto - without success....

He committed a suicide.

The son of Anka Wolkowicz, Wladka's friend. He was 5 years old in July 1942; stayed in the Medem sanatorium in Miedz...

He was a teacher in the Folkschul at Mila Street No. 51 and an activist of Skif- he taught Wladka. Since the beginni...

Julian Welikowski's wife and mother of 4 years old daughter.

Julian Welikowski's daughter. She was 4 years old.

wife of a well-known Bund leader. She lived at Gesia Street No. 13, she kept Wladka for a few days. During the round...

A nephew of the Soviet diplomat Litwinow. A fugitive from the camp in Treblinka. He told Zygmunt (Zalmanow Friedrich...

Itta Weintraub was Wlodka's old friend. Together with her husband she was looking for a gun and something to eat in...

One of the activists whom Wladka cooperates with. They visit Jewish partisans in the forest near Wyszkow. Bolek and...

The author went to visit Anka Wolkowicz, who knew the yard better then her and could know some hideaway. It occurred...

A Pole. On 5 December 1942 participated in the catholic funeral of Gina Klepfisz. Anna Wachalska helped Wladka to ge...

A representative of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) on the 'Aryan side'. A member of Haszomer Hacair. He was...

The author's friend. Together with her husband Bolek (Chaim Ellenbogen) she worked in the Medem's Sanatorium until i...

A commander of a ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organisation) outfit fighting near Nowolipki Street No. 40.

The Germans surrounded Winogronow and Rozowski's units, which were situated in the attic at Nowolipki Street No. 43....

a Jewish family hiding with Polish peasants in Pludy near Warsaw. The peasant turned out to be an informer

A Polish woman who met Wladka with the engineer Blumenthal, he was the guardian of two nephews, survivors of the Hol...

Later on the author and Mikolaj met at Zurawia Street No. 24, at Samsonowicz's. The housekeeper (a Pole - Mrs. Wasow...

A Pole; she helped Wladka by offering a post of seamstress to her. She knew that the girl was Jewish. When the autho...

When the author gave up her job, Wanda Wnorowska took her friends who managed to get out of the ghetto in place of h...

An activist of the SKIF and the underground socialist movement, a friend of Wladka.

The deceased daughter of Anna Wachalska, cooperating with a Jewish underground organisation. Wladka Meed had a Kennk...

A Pole. She lived in Sienna Street. A hideout was prepared in her flat.

author's friend. They lived together for some time. She had three sisters who were thrown out from Wloclawek as they...

a Jew, a major, command member during the defence of the Old Town in the Warsaw Uprising. He died in the Old Town.

Leader of a Polish Socialist Party (PPS) partisan unit, to which activists from the steering committee tried to join...

Pole, owner of a house at Grojecka Street No. 83. There was a big shelter on his land, in which 30 Jews were hiding....

Israel Romanowicz, Szymek Shaintal, Dawid Nowodworski, Henryk Kleinweiss, Rivka Saperstein and Dorka Dembinska- deci...

Commander of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) unit at Nowolipie Street No. 67.

Artur Zygielbojm's wife. The author and Abrasha offered Mania that they could take care of her son Antek on the 'Ary...

Polish, Home Army (Armia Krajowa) officer, expert on explosives. He contributes to Polish underground help for the J...

Helenka from Piotrkow, seamstress, she was a messenger of the Jewish Co-oordinating Committee (ZKK). She helped peop...

helped Jews on the 'Aryan side'?

Crypto-Jew. Lived in a lat at Mokotowska Street No. 31. A messenger between the couriers of the Coordinating Committ...

Estusia Lipshitz was registered in Ziman's passport as his wife

Krysia was the most active and industrious messenger of the Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK). She was beautiful,...

husband of Bronka, who was a friend of Wladka from Piotrkow . Like his wife he was of Jewish origin, Bronka had a hi...

together in a hideout

a young Polish socialist. He lived with his mother at Browarna Street No. 20. He traded in weapons.

Beaten to blood with a whip by Murmann's supervisor, sixteen-year-old, the youngest seamstress in the workshops at L...

Hiding Jew. He lived and worked for a Pole, tailor Rogozinski, at Prozna Street No. 14.

Hiding Jew. He lived and worked for a Pole, tailor Rogozinski, at Prozna Street No. 14.

Christian funeral of Gina Klepfisz: author, her brother and the brother's husband. On the cemetery, they met Jankiel...

Michal had to be careful as well - he had already been blackmailed. He was tall, handsome, had blue eyes, but his no...

He is one of the people, who meet in fall of 1943 at Miodowa Street No., he gives a Bund anniversary speech.

Tadek, a new men in the underground, he turned out to be efficient in getting weapons. He secretly bought weapons fr...

Luba and Zygmunt decided to 'smuggle' a small, five-year-old girl to the 'Aryan side'. They said: 'The guard is brib...

It turned out that Mika had 10 revolver cartridges with him. The boy was tortured in order to make him reveal where...

Kiedy Stefan odwiedził Annę Wonchalską podejrzenia autorki, co do niego, nasiliły się i kazała Ance, żeby pozbyła si...

On the third day of the uprising, Zalman, Marek and Michal were to determine the enemy's position. Coming from one b...

On the third day of the uprising, Zalman, Marek and Michal were to determine the enemy's position. Coming from one b...

Pole, who told Wladka, that it was a peasant from Pludy who denounced her friends, giving away their hideout. Zalman...

Killed? Died? Activist of an underground organisation

A Jew, who Wladka met in a village near Siedlce: he hid together with his two children in a cottage on a hill, a loc...

Irena, a Jewess from Siedlce, she hid in the attic. She wrote to the Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK): 'My hide-o...

A Polish scout, he got into trouble on the 'Aryan side' contributed to death of several other people.

At Miodowa Street No. 24 the author met Zivia Lubetkin, Antek, Kazik, Fishgrund, Mikolaj, Celemenski, Irka, Marysia,...

At Miodowa Street No. 24, the author met Zivia Lubetkin, Antek, Kazik, Fishgrund, Mikolaj, Celemenski, Irka, Marysia...

Author's friend from Piotrkow. In the end of 1943, she sold cheaply her flat to Wladka - she is a Jewess, plans to e...

a middle-aged Pole, employee of Hotel Polski in Marszalkowska Street. Devoted himself to helping the Jews.

Wladka's friend, Zlata Lichtenstein's daughter. She bore a child before the deportations. During the 'action', she l...

a Jewish woman, Jewish ex-policeman's mother, who was hiding at Mrs Brzeska's place at Topiel Street No. 8. She kill...

Pole, host from Pludy near Warsaw. Wasserman's family was hiding in his cottage. He offered that, he will take four...

a Pole, owner of a house at Barokowa Street No. 2, in which Wladka lives. He knew who he was and he sometimes helped...

one of two older sisters, Wladka's neighbours in Leszno Street

one of two older sister, Wladka's neighbours in Leszno Street

Daughter of Reb Awrom, coachman, she had a little sister. She was deported with her family during the First Action.

An elderly Pole, maid of a house at Napoleona Street No. 3. In a servant's room by the kitchen she was harbouring a...

called 'Black Janek', one of refugees from the ghetto, hiding and fighting in partisan units near Wyszkow; Wladka an...

one of refugees from the ghetto, a partisan in a forest near Wyszkow

a Jewish boy, he hid in Karmelicka Street, Wladka had to help him move to a hideout in Brodnowska Street; they were...

The only girl in a group of twelve Jews hiding in a barn in Zelislawice.

One of the partisans met by Wladka in Romanow's house: young Jew, who was among the thirteen people hiding in a barn...

one of thirteen Jews hiding in a barn in Zelislawice; Wladka met him again in Romanow's cottage

Pole, commander of a partisan unit in the woods in the Kielce region called "Orly" after his pseudonym. At...

a young messenger of the Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK); a Jew of 'Aryan' appearance; in 1943 she gathered info...

Pole, an elderly man, worker. Wladka got his address from one of the Jews, hiding in Koniecpol. He helped Jews. Aske...

a young Zionist's, a Jew working in a factory in Rakow, pseudonym; he was connected with fighters from the ghetto in...

a girl from partisan units near Wyszkow; in 1944 before the uprising moved to Warsaw

the Jewish Fighting Organisation soldier; he fought in the uprising in the ghetto; together with his wife Masza Glei...

Jewish policeman, who was hiding together with his mother at Ms. Brzeska's place at Topiel Street No. 8. After movin...

one of the fighters, Mordechaj Anielewicz mentions in a letter to Zuckermann that until 23 April 1943 Jehiel is thei...

a Pole, who helped get transport to a group of the ghetto refugees hiding near Lomianki

a Polish peasant from a village near Siedlce; every second day he sent his sons with bread and a few potatoes to two...

a 12-year-old Jew from Piotrkow; he worked as a newspaper salesman on the corner of Krolewska Street and Krakowskie...

One of the twelve Jews who hid in a peasants' barn in Zelislawice. He was the representative of the group, he was th...

leader of a group of twelve hiding Jews; he was a very well-known peasant from Zelislawice, they wanted to talk only...

one of Wladka's neighbours in Leszno Street, deported together with family during the First Action. Formerly he was...

Needlewoman Chaveleh came to the author's mother - for her services she was paid in a plate of soup and a piece of b...

a member of the Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK) leadership; one of Wladka's contacts; after the Warsaw Uprising...

Skiff's activist in Praga, escaped from Treblinka, where he got with his wife and his one-year-old son.

Eli's wife, Skiff's activist in Praga. Taken from the Jewish hospital with her husband and one-year-old son, got to...

Estusia Lipshitz was put down in Ziman's passport as his wife, when the chance to leave the country through the Hote...

'Lichtenbaum was saved from the Umschlagplatz...' - Mordechaj Anielewicz mentioned him in the letter to Zuckermann,...

One of the activists of the Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK)and of the Bund, in autumn 1944 he resided with the o...

Son of Libe and Eli Linder. Born in the ghetto, during the First Action he was sent to Treblinka with his parents. A...

Juliana Larisz, the woman who worked before the war for the Zilberbergs, a Jewish family from Praga. She helped 21 p...

The chief of the Jewish Police, traitor. He died in the attack of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in 1943.

they also met in Dawid Kleen (a pre-war Bund activist, former food supplier for the Jewish Social Self-help in the g...

Zlata Lichtenstein is an old friend of Wladka and Jurek Blones. Her daughter Ruszka gave birth to a child before the...

a Soviet diplomat

a member of the steering committee of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) leadership; she was one of the uprising...

Son of Goldman who was a dentist, he was hiding with his father.

a Pole, housekeeper at Orla Street No. 6. Hid Jews in exchange for the money from the Coordinating Committee. Repeat...

After the liquidation of the Small Ghetto Wladka shared a flat at Nowolipie Street No. 69 with him and three other f...

One of the Jewish prisoners brought to the public bath in Radom. He established contact with Wladka, promised to hel...

Fighter of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB), author's friend. Along with other Jews, she was hiding at Wojciec...

Member of the Bund Central Committee. He was hiding from The Gestapo in the ghetto, he was active on the 'Aryan side...

Old, kind-hearted teacher. Before the war taught Polish in a Jewish folkshule, which the author finished. In the ghe...

One of the girls who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She was in Pludy together with the Blones - Jurek, Luska a...

Dentist, specialist in dental surgery- he was hiding in Piotrkow with his son. He asked the Jewish Cooordinating Com...

Three of the Goldsteins survived in hideouts on the 'Aryan side' thanks to Juliana Larkisz, who was a Pole. Wladka p...

engineer; he hid in Sliska Street until the Warsaw Uprising; he shared the hideout with Klara and Adas Falk; when th...

One of the participants of the meeting at Filozof's in October 1942. Grillak was to operate on the brush factory pre...

Commander of one of ZOB's (Jewish Fighting Organization) units at Walowa Street No. 6 opposite the brush factory.

He was a combat commander in the central ghetto. Killed during the combat at Mila Street No. 29 - he called on his f...

One of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) commanders. He was in charge of the combat group which fought in the f...

Helped Eliezer Geller's group to get out to the forest in Lomianki.

Przed wojną był jednym z szefów JOINTu. W 1943 r. zaangażował się w próbę zdobycia zagranicznej wizy przez Hotel Pol...

Doktor historii, przywódca partii Poale Zion. W getcie rozprowadzał fałszywe karty zatrudnienia, by uchronić młodych...

An activist of the Jewish underground. He was arrested together with Tadek (Towie Szaingut) during weapons collectio...

A fighter of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB).

She hid together with Edelman and Lubetkin in Wojciechowski's hideout, among others

During the First Action in August 1942, together with a group of six friends (he helped each of them to leave throug...

A member of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in the brush factory in Franciszkanska Street. A day before the u...

She went to school with the author, they were both Skiff and Zukunft activists; they lived together at Nowolpie Stre...

He was in charge of youth organisations in the ghetto. He was the head of the house in the common flat at Nowolipie...

A doctor from the Jewish hospital, Jadzia Rosenberg's, who was a beautiful nurse, husband. Both of them hid at Napol...

He was Polish, a big-scale smuggler - he smuggled Jews to Hungary for 200 dolars per person.

a Pole, a taylor, he lived at Prozna Street No. 14. He hid two Jews-Notke and Mietek-who worked for him.

Anna Wonchalska took in a thirteen-year-old girl named Zoska Ribak. She had very 'Aryan' facial features. The girl c...

Mietek Rozenfarb escaped from Treblinka. He lost his wife and two children. As he was a tailor by profession he earn...

After the uprising she hid together with other fighters on the 'Aryan side', at Leszno Street No. 18.

A beautiful, young nurse from the Jewish hospital. Together with her husband she was hidden by a Polish woman, who s...

A Polish pensioner, who hides in her house in Miedeszyn Klara Falks and her son Adas. She keeps the Jews in a closet...

A 13-year-old, Jewish, was hidden by Polish sisters, Anna Wachalska and Maria Sawicka.

Kazik Rathajzer's 7-year-old sister, she was hidden by sisters Anna Wachalska and Maria Sawicka.

A peasant from Zelislawice, he lived in a cottage on the edge of the wood. He contacted the partisans.

A representative of the Bund at the Coordinating Committee on the 'Aryan side,' a messenger with the Polish undergro...

5-12-42 r. był na cmentarzu podczas katolickiego pogrzebu Giny Klepfisz. Po aryjskiej stronie żył czas dłuższy, zdąż...

Took part in a meeting at Miła Street No. 5. Was to organize an underground movement at Schulz's workshops. Died dur...

Ten-year-old Adas and his mother Klara are hiding in Miedzeszyn, at Mrs Riba's place. Due to constant sitting in a s...

Klara and her son Adas are hiding in Miedzeszyn, at the place of Mrs Riba, who is a Pole. They live in a dark shed o...

Igla became a messanger of the Coordinating Committee. He soon died together with Gutta Kawenoki, Yakov Feigelblatt...

Lutek and his four friends were arrested by the soldiers of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) on the fourth day of the W...

Paula Flinker, Friedrich's wife, Ruta Perenson and her son Mika Perenson were to settle at the Dubiels' place.

The Author's neighbour, an employee of the Judenrat. A co-owner of the workshop at Muranowska Street No. 38

Gabriel Frishdorf's wife, just as her husband she was a member of ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organisation) and she fou...

One of the last commanders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), after 16 April 1943 in the ghetto.

One of the fighters who survived in the ghetto. Died in a forest near Wyszkow.

A messenger, recommender by Marek Edelman. 24 years old, was a switchboard operator in a Jewish children's hospital....

A former Bund activist in Lodz. Lived at Mila Street No. 5. In October 1942 young underground activists gathered in...

Przedwojenny działacz Bundu z Krakowa. Władka spotyka go zimą 42/42 w jadłodajni przy ul. Sewerynów 6. Innym miejsce...

The Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) member, was in Anielewicz combat group. He took part in fighter Zandman's lib...

A daughter of Zalman Friedrich-Zygmunt who was an active underground leader. She was hiding in a church near Cracow.

Six-year-old Else Friedrich, Zygmunt's daughter - she found shelter in a convent near Cracow.

Berlinski was a member of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) command

A Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK) representative on the 'Aryan side', leader of Poale Zion-Left.

Abrasz Blum's wife. Before the war she was the headmistress of a Jewish kindergarten, and she remained the headmistr...

A former teacher in a Jewish school, Mania Wasser's sister. Deported to Treblinka after the round-up in Mila Street....

Abramek's and his wife's little daughter. During the First Action she was one years old. She was deported together w...

A wealthy man from Nowolipki Street. He owned a flat equipped with heavy, reinforced door. He hid Baruch Zifferman's...

In august 1942, during the First Action, she found herself in the train heading to Treblinka. She escaped together w...

Abrasz Blum and Luba Bielicka's son, he was six in 1943. He managed to survive the war.

Three-year-old Iza was placed in Radzymin with a Polish family, thanks to the help of Juliana Larkisz, the Zilberber...

An underground activist, he worked in a German factory in Palcery and Rakow. Wladka made contact with him.

He was Polish, a factory-worker in Rakow. His address became the mail box of the Coordinating Committee. He actively...

In Mrs Brzeska's house, at Topiel Street No. 8, hid five Jews.

Genia Brillanstein, a nurse, friend of Wladka and Jurek Blones from before the war. A day before the outbreak of the...

An engineer from Lvov. After he had found his brother's two children, he managed to find a hideout for them. He did...

The author's friend from the youth underground.

A Polish woman, who received on her address letters to the Coordinating Committee (Warsaw contact).

The twins Nellie and Wlodka were safely placed on the "Aryan side". They lived with Mr and Mrs Dubiel in C...

The twins Nellie and Wlodka were safely placed on the "Aryan side". They lived with Mr and Mrs Dubiel in C...

Maria Barkowska, who was Polish, hid for a couple of days Oles Blum.

wife of doctor Berman - an active Jewish activist

A teacher in a Central Jewish School Organisation (CISZO) school, a member of Poale Zion. The mother of two twins hi...

A Skif activist, in July 1942 he dealt with distributing the work records. He drove a rikshaw. Before the ghetto upr...

Przywódca nielegalnego Bundu w getcie, był oparciem dla wszystkich działających w podziemiu młodch. Pracował w Zytos...

The author's school mate, one of the members of the uprising. He was taken to the Umschlagplatz with his younger bro...

In August 1942, during the First Action, she escaped with her six friends from a train to Treblinka. She was a membe...

in 1943 he was 13 and he was the youngest ZOB member; Jurek Blones's brother; rescued by his brother from the train...

Leader of an illegal Socialist organization.

A young man, the leader of Zukunft, illegal organization of young socialists in the ghetto. He had a wife and a one-...

A member of Skiff, he joined Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) just before the uprising - he wanted to fight in the...

Helena Sciborowska from Krochmalna Street No. 36 was another person devoted to her work for the underground. Petite,...

A Pole whose documents were used by Michal Klepfisz. His mother had looked for him for a long time. Michal was afrai...

A tailor, Wladka's acquaintance. He landed at the Umschlagplatz during the First Action ca. 2 August 1942 together w...

German, a superior in the workshop, where the author works at Leszno Street No. 80

Mrs Mermelstein and her son Stefan, Klara Hechtman and her 16-year-old daughter Gutka hid at Radzyminska Street No. 53

Mrs Mermelstein's son. Together with his mother he hid at Radzyminska Street No. 53. They were moved by Wladka to Or...

Together with about 20 other Jews she hid during the Warsaw uprising in the cellar under the ruins of the house at S...

A Jewish craftsman, employed in a German printing house. He stayed in a labour camp in Radom. He participated in und...

Michelson wondered if Warsaw Jews would suffer the same fate as Chelm inhabitants (he knew from the undertakers that...

In summer 1943 Benjamin Miedzyrzecki was hiding in the attic of Hotel Polski with a couple of other people, escaping...

At Miodowa Street No. 24 the author met Zivia Lubetkin, Antek, Kazik, Fishgrund, Mikolaj, Celemenski, Irka, Marysia,...

When the Germans surrounded Raizel Malinowska's house in Nowolipki Street, she tried to hide together with her neigh...

A teacher from Medem School in Lodz. He hid with Ringelblum in Grojecka street, and worked with him.

Stefan Mermelstein's, who was a composer, mother. In the hideout in Orla Street she gets ill and cannot walk. She re...

Wladka's friend, an activist of the Zukunft in Lodz. During the First Action he worked in the Schultz's shop. He die...

mother of Beniamin and 11-year-old daughter, together with them and her husband she hid at Kartaszew's in Praga.

Apart from a woman by the name Meltzer, who was contacted by Wladek's organization, in a printing house in Radom the...

a doctor, Ala Margolis's mother, who was a messenger of the Coordinating Committee

A composer, graduate of the Lodz Conservatoire. He hid with his mother and Klara Hechtman at Radzyminska Street No....

an 11-year-old girl, Beniamin's sister, the author's future sister-in-law. Together with her parents she hid in a sm...

Beniamin's and 11-year-old daughter's father, with wife and children hid with Kartaszew in Praga

Polish workman in a German factory in Pelcery near Czestochowa who mediated in contacts between Jewish workers from...

a worker of a printing house in Radom, contacted by Wladek's organization

An elderly lady, Polish. The mother of a man "temporarily employed in Germany" according to the documents....

A Pole. Before the war he worked as a worker with a talented engineer, Klepfisz. During the war he became a rickshaw...

He died in the camp in Trawniki.

"Nastek"

in Miodowa Street No. 24 the author met Zivia Luetkin, Antek, Kazik, Fishgrund, Mikolaj Celemenski, Irka, Marysia, Z...

the author of memoirs. During the First Action she loses her mother and brother. After the liquidation of the Small...

Deported to the Umschlagplatz

The owner of a flat in Zoliborz, which in spring 1943; often visited by Leon Feiner and other activists of the Jewis...

Commanded Fighting Organisation group during the fights in the ghetto. On 17 January 1943, his unit liberated an arr...

Member of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB). After the uprising, she hid on the 'Aryan side' with five friends,...

One of the commanders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). He fought in the central ghetto, was in command of...

a factory owner

Jewish woman, an activist from Cracow. She had a thirteen-year-old daughter, who was saved by Jankiel Celemenski fro...

A co-owner of a workshop in Muranowska street No. 38.

Was in hiding in Radzyminska Street 53 along with the Mermelsteins and her 16-year-old daughter. Constant stress cau...

L. Hodess' daughter. L. Hodess was a journalist, Lutek Swedosz's wife. In hiding at Ogrodowa Street No. 55 together...

A journalist, Chewka Hodess' father.

Mrs. Mermelstein and her son Stefan, Klara Hechtman and her 16-year-old daughter Gutka were hididng atRadzyminska St...

Former textile merchant, co-owner of a workshop in Muranowska Street No. 38.

A Jewish Gestapo collaborator , during the summer of 1942 spread rumours about an upcoming deportation.

A fighter from Eliezer Geller's detachment. When the detachment was completely surrounded, he died while climbing do...

A 19-year-old commander of a combat outfit from Mila and Zamenhofa Streets area. Killed during the defense of a shel...

the chairman of the Judenrat

Jew, an activist on the 'Aryan side' in Cracow. At the beginning of December 1942 he rescued Hanka Aleksandrowicz's...

Jurek Igra was the Jewish Cooordinating Committee (ZKK) messenger. Jurek built a small hideout in the toilet for Fra...

One of Bund activists, present at the anniversary meeting at Miodowa Street No. 24 in the autumn of 1943.

One of the few participants of the Uprising in the ghetto to survive it. He fought in the area of Schultz's workshop...

Liza Jelen came from a prominent Hassid Warsaw family. She run away from the ghetto but typically Aryan appearance d...

A Polish caretaker in the building at Prozna Street No. 14. Together with the owner and the Jews, Mietek and Notke,...

A young Jew, hid at Panska Street. On the first day of the uprising, he joined the people building barricades.

A Pole, initially she had the Rosenbergs hiding at her place. She was arrested.

Wladka Meed's neighbour. Her husband disappeared in Russia at the beginning of the war, she was left alone with thre...

Dror activist

He is a leader of one of the ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) units during first fights in the ghetto during the S...

Szmul Zygielbojm, alias Artur, committed suicide in London.

Member of the National Council in London.

The author lived in his flat for some time after the ghetto had been established. They used to prepare together the...

The author lived in his flat some time after establishment of the ghetto. Together they prepared for printing the un...

wife of Szmul (Artur) Zygielbojm, who was the representative of Jews in Polish government-in-exile in London. Died w...

three of the Ziffermans survived

Before the war, the Zilberberg family lived in Praga. When the ghetto was established, all of them (four people) esc...

Son of Mania and Artur (Szmul) Zygielbojm. Artur was a representative of Jews in the Polish government-in-exile (in...

17 January 1943 a young employee of Hellman's furniture factory, pours acid on a German Werkschutz. Arrested, freed...

Krysia Zlotowska, a young student who worked at Toebbens' place together with Wladka, ran away from the ghetto. For...

Ziman, a member of the Zunkunft in Praga, had a very good hideout at Grzybowska Street No. 29. He placed his five-ye...

A Jewess hiding on the 'Aryan side'. She answered an ad in a newspaper and started to work for a small German family...

A leader of a Zukunft youth group. A son of a wealthy merchant from Gesia Street. He used to arrange jobs for his fr...

Franka Zlotowska, a Jewess, was hiding in the house of Polish people at Krochmalna Street No. 36. Jurek Zlotowski cr...

Jewish woman who survived the war in Dankewicz's hideout, a Pole from Pruszkow

Collaborated with the Gestapo. Helped the Germans in their contacts with the Jews in the Hotel Polski.

One of the commanders of the uprising in the ghetto. He commanded five Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) units in t...

He and his wife worked in the Madem Sanatorium near Warsaw until its liquidation in August 1942. They succeeded in c...

One of Bund activists, he was at Miodowa No. 24 during the autumn anniversary meeting in 1943

10-years-old; Bolek's. He hid in the attic at Polish people's placer for some time, then he had to go back to the gh...

Bolek's sister; Ania's sister-in-law. Ania and Bolek worked at Medema Sanatorium for children, but Germans closed it...

a Polish from Pruszkow; Mrs Zucker, a Jew, survied the war in a hideout at his place

A Pole, an owner of the house at Ogrodowa Street No. 55. In a two-room flat he arranged, in a bathroom, an entrance...

Mr Dankiewicz, owner of a house in Ogrodowa Street, had little daughter: Helena Scheffner, a former Jewish teacher h...

One of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) messengers, outstanding in uprising missions.

A Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) messenger, outstanding in the uprising missions.

Israel Romanowicz, Szymek Shaintal, Dawid Nowodworski, Henryk Kleinweiss, Rivka Saperstein i Dorka Dembinska - all d...

Stefan Machaj's cousin.

one of Michal Klepfisz's hosts; in front of his door in a lime hole there is a Molotov coctail attempt

A kind, old Polish woman, who hid the twins, Nellie and Wladka; in summer 1943 when Wladka had to leave the city aft...

Son of the Dubiels; in 1943 he guided a 12 years old Jewish boy, Mika Perenson, as he was getting over the ghetto wa...

Starszy mężczyzna, mąż pani Dubiel. Ukrywali bliźniaczki Blit. Wielokrotnie pomaga działaczom podziemia.Omal nie zgi...

About 20 years old (in 1943), a member of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in the brush factory.

Wladka lived in a small room on the fourth floor. The house belonged to Stefan Niewiarowski. Abrasza Blum hid there...

Mieszka tam rodzina Szajnfuks do jesieni 1940, kiedy zostają rozstrzelani przez Niemców.

A Polish woman, who worked for Jewish employers before the war. She took 21 people out from the ghetto, she placed p...

On the fifth day the fires from the ghetto reach the 'Aryan side', houses in Bonifraterska Street burn.

Jeden z rejonów, na jakie podzieliły getto grupy operacyjne ŻOB podczas powstania. Walczyło w nim pięć oddziałów pod...

in the church in Fabryczna Street, engineer Michal Klepfisz meets Julian - an expert on explosive materials in the H...

a building of the Collegium, a Polish science institution; it was on the opposite side of the street to the workshop...

Toebbens's workshop, where the author works; it was moved to the building of the Jewish Hospital; during the Small G...

German patrol was re-enforced, which caused consternation among Jews.

one of the regions, in which the ghetto was divided by the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) operational groups; mo...

Gaurd post (wacha) by the ghetto's wall, in the evening guards change

Barracks for refugees. Barber Katz with his family lived there for some time.

Mrs Peltel's neighbor decided to hide with the Peltels family in one of three rooms having blocked the door with a c...

author's mother lives here, with Chaim and Henia?

Toebbens' workshops. Crowds of people applied for jobs there in order to avoid deportation.

Vladka Meed lives there. She witnesses how in the evenings terrified inhabitants talk in the courtyard. Wladka Meed...

a group under Heniek Kawa's command fights during the uprising

Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) unit fights there under the command of Eliezer Geller.

the workshop where the author lived was moved here

meeting place of underground activists; a hideout for the uprising in the ghetto leadership; information centre for...

Główna kwatera Gestapo, miejsce ponurej sławy, gdzie więziono i zakatowano wielu ludzi. Prawdopodobnie tu był tortur...

a caretaker - Polisha and Stefan Grajek help Eliezer Geller's group of 40 people cross to the forest in Lomianki

a house in Ogrodowa Street - Mr Dankiewicz's property - in one of the hideouts found by Wladka

the house was rented out to three Jews from Radzyminska Street No. 53 (Stefana Mermelstein with mother and Klara Hec...

opposite the Jewish cemetery there was the adjacent Feifer's factory; through its tannery Wladka smuggled dynamite t...

mieszkanie Wandy Kosobudzkiej, w którym ukrywali się Łazarz Menes i doktor Paszyńskiz rodziną w okresie od sierpnia...

A place of a main selection during the round-up in Mila Street.

Henryk's (Salo Fishgrund) flat, a place of messengers' meetings

refugees' from the ghetto (underground activists) place of meetings

place of the main 'selection'

The route of workers on detail coming back to the ghetto form their work on the 'Aryan side' - to the 'wild ghetto,'...

On 13 May Wladka, Zygmunt and Bolek meet Bolek Nosowski: about including surviving fighters to his Polish Socialist...

fights under the command of Velvel Rozowski

Tadek Niewiarowski lives there - a Pole collaborating with Wladka; he finds out from her that it was the host himsel...

A Jewess, Irena, hides there. She begged the Jewish Co-ordinating Committee (ZKK) to find her other place - she didn...

Benjamin Miedzyrzecki breaches a thin wall and discovers a basement, which can be used as a shelter.

the 'Aryan' streets along the ghetto's wall are burnt by Germans during the first two weeks of the Ghetto Uprising

It is a provisional cemetery and dumpster. About 20 Jews hide there.

A Polish women, a widow with children, gives hiding to Jews and helps them find other hideouts. Franka Zlotowska was...

Maria Barkowska lived there. Shares a small room with a roommate. They gave hiding to Oles Blum for a few of days.

Wladka met there her friends Cywia Wax and Janek Bilak. They were young activists of Skiff, which was an underground...

streets included in the 'action' on the day of Zytos blockade

Anna Wachalska lived there, probably 13-year-old Zosia Ribak was in hiding there.

On 24 April 1943 the Germans shot 60 fugitives who escaped from the ghetto, some of whom were just little children.

In 1943, after the failure of the uprising in the ghetto, the Germans burned the house down and killed the Polish fa...

a Jewish boy hides there

Jurek Wilner was brought there from the Pawiak prison by mistake.

Jozik (a 12-year-old Jew from Piotrkow) sells newspapers.

On a sunny, winter day in 1943 the place was full of people who danced, drank coffee, played with their children. Fr...

On 2 August 1942 the street is blocked. The Peltels cannot go to Henia, who lives at Nowolipki Street No. 12.

Faigele Goldstein lives there; in September 1942 Germans conducted a great selection among people employed in German...

the base of the Jewish Fightin Organisation (ZOB) leaders during the uprising; members of ZOB with Mordechaj Anielew...

widow Cheveleh, a seamstress, lives there

Julian Welikowski taught there, Wladka Meed went to school there

miejsce walk ŻOB w czasie II akcji

Mr Julian lives there, he was a middleman between couriers and an underground printing shop; materials were left at...

a street, where on the first day of the uprising heavy fightings take place, the northern part burns, black smoke co...

Kuba Zilberberg's father's workshop, part of the big Toebben's factory.

on 20 April 1943 Revisionists (New Zionist Organization) group- independent of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB...

Pero, a reception desk worker, helps the Jews.

20 April 1943 - one of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) units fights there

a bunker, where Lejb Gruzalc, Dawid Hochberg and Berel Tanskroit among others defend themselves during the uprising

Filozof's flat - a former Bund activist from Lodz

the place of meeting for underground acitivists; in autumn 1943 a group of Bund members meet here on the occasion of...

during the Second Action (18-23 January 1943) clashes of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) took place

in the shelter below the building ruins there hide five Jews, who escaped from the ghetto

Zburzony dom, w którym było stanowisko bojowe ŻOW z ckm-em w czasie powstania w getcie; pod nim miała miejsce potycz...

20 April 1943, one of the ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) combat units is fighting

20 April 1943, one of the ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) combat units is fighting.

the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) skirmishes took place there during the Second Action (18-23 January 1943)

The Police checks the documents of the passers-by.

The police is checking work records of the pedestrians: the Jews without documents are deported immediately. A littl...

the Umschlagplatz, where Jews were gathered and loaded on trains to extermination camps; 18 January 1943, during the...

The Jews who survived the selection in Mila Street are marching. They are witnesses to the shooting of an old, deaf...

Here Juliana Larisz placed eight of her acquaintances whom she managed to get out of the ghetto.

Mrs. Brzeska's flat. A hideout of five Jews.

Wladka's new flat, which she bought from Bronka. Located on the second floor. A room and a kitchen. In the room, beh...

In August 1942 Germans announced the liquidation of the Small Ghetto, forcing employed people to move and threatenin...

after the liquidation of the ghetto, horrible terror, burning Polish houses and hideouts - Germans suddenly create a...

a German factory, where workers brought from the ghetto worked.

Mr. and Mrs. Dubiel's small house - a hideout of Nellie and Wlodka (twins). Is it the same house in which Michal Kle...

the place where Wladka meets Jurek Irga, who was looking for the Jewish Coordinating Committee's (ZKK) help

Undercover policemen lead an arrested hostage - Michalina Wojaczek from Przemyslowa Street No. 5; Wladka frees herse...

the Hotel Polski, where Jews willing to emigrate in 1943 were registered

there was an orphanage of the Central Organization for Orphan Care. Bolek's brother, Luzerel, stays there

crowded and lively pre-war Jewish streets became a part of the ghetto and by the end of 1944 they formed a cemetery...

Wladka and Blum are led here after being arrested in Barokowa Street No. 2; after a night in a cell Abrasza is taken...

during the Warsaw Uprising Jewish insurgents release 300 Jewish prisoners - Greeks and Hungarians

friend of Sarah Samorok's mother lives there

one of Michal Klepfisz's hideouts: one evening the Gestapo arrest him near the house; a hideout: a young Jew, Jagodz...

the Pole hides two Jews, Notke and Mietek, both work for him; in the corridor of the building the guard Jablonski to...

people lug sewing machines, they rush trying to get a job

the new address from Michalina Wojaczek's Kennkarte - meaning Wladka Meed. Zoska Kersh moves in, Krysia Zlotowska af...

the place of imprisonment and execution of many victims, Jurek Wilner among others; in 1942 in Pawiak's courtyard Ge...

the ghetto wall along Okopowa and Dzika Streets reaches as far as Parysowski Square, which is the place of intense s...

workshop workers live there after a 'move' and the liquidation of the Small Ghetto. Wladka shares the flat - two dar...

Baruch Zifferman with wife and son hides at the Birnbaums', in the flat behind a heavy iron door.

Blokada ulicy, w czasie której zabito na miejscu 70 osób.

insurgent point, which 20 April 1943 welcomed Germans in the ghetto with a rain of bullets from the windows and gate...

a large house, used by German officer and high rank clerks; a Polish servant hides two Jews in servants' room - Jadz...

an officer, commanding the selection in Schultz's workshops during the Second Action, dissatisfied with the effects...

Reizel Malinowska lives in one of the houses. During the First Action she tries to hide with the neighbours in the a...

Abramek Bortenstein works there. A Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) group is active there under Welwel Rozowski's...

ZTOS (Jewish Social Welfare Association) building

a People's Kitchen, the author's sister, Henia Peltel, lives there. In the basement there hides her mother and broth...

there fought a unit under Shloima Winogron's command

during the uprising Germans surrounded Winogron and Rozowski's units hidden in the attic

Jan Brus' flat. Wladka's contact box.

A few Jewish survivors with whom the Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK) cooperates live there - among others there...

Groups of refugees from the Czestochowa ghetto are hiding at peasants' places.

Jewish prisoners work there.

In the summer of 1943 a group of 13 refugees from the ghetto in Czestochowa hid in a peasants' barn. In the autumn t...

The residence of the Polish government-in-exile.Artur (Szmul) Zygielbojm was a Jewish representative to the governme...

Ca. 70 fighters who survived after the Ghetto Uprising are hiding here, waiting for support. Local peasants are afra...

Celek Kersz was there in 1943. Thanks to his sister, the help of the Jewish Coordinating Committee (ZKK) and a Polis...

getto po akcji

getto po akcji "kotła"

In the winter of 1942 and 1943 the Germans took children who had an 'Aryan' apperance away from their Polish familie...

Rzeka, która płynęła na wschodzie II Rzeczpospolitej, podczas drugiej wojny światowej stała się rzeką graniczną z ZS...

All the Jews from Chelmno were gassed - the message came to Warsaw via the grave-diggers

When Wladka reaches the city on her way to Koniecpol there is a severe search on the platform. Polish smuggler ('szm...

The Coordinating Committee sends messengers in various directions, to the cities where Germans maintain labour camps...

Old Romanow lives there with his family, he is a peasant who helps Jewish people and partisans.

A few months after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, after running away from a camp in Germany, Wladka and Benjamin f...

The Jewish survivors of the Czestochowa ghetto formed a unit in the forest; the unit used to burn German factories a...

Before the war, Jewish children used to play there. When Wladka visits the Falks, the sanatorium is deserted and emp...

one year old Krysia Klog, unkempt and malnourished, is hidden by a poor Polish family

The Wasserman family is hiding in a peasant house. The host wants four Jews more. When they come, all of them are ar...

Just like in Rakow, there is a factory where Jewish people work day and night. They are in the camp at the factory (...

W 1943 r docierają do Warszawy wieści o prowadzonej tam eksterminacji Żydów.

Avrom Metzler and Kotliar worked in the German printing house. A lot of prisoners worked also by producing items for...

From time to time the Jews from the labour camp come to take a bath. At noon of such a day, it is possible to buy se...

Wladka runs away to the railway station in a droshky. She runs away from children from Radom who shout at her in a l...

Wladka's Polish contact mail box: elder worker is supposed to facilitate her mission. When Wladka riches him, the el...

A factory was situated there - a huge area, surrounded with a fence and guarded, with high chimneys. Two Jewish memb...

Command headquaters of the People's Army (AL) was situated there. Chaim Ellenbogen and Boleslaw Nosowski wanted to f...

German air-ride and German airborne operation, observed by Jakub and his brother-in-law. Polish troops deployed in t...

In Sokolow tracks fork - civilians mustn't go any further. In 1942- 1943 every day full transports go this way to Tr...

obóz pracy dla Żydów, zlikwidowany w listopadzie 1943

A group of Jews, who were promised in Poland in 1943 to recieve expensive, foreign visas, were sent to the Durchgang...

Handel placówkarzy z Polakami po aryjskiej stronie.

przechodzenie na stronę aryjską

kryjówki na terenie getta

szmugiel broni do getta

Rozlokowanie Żydów w getcie po I akcji:1) czworobok ulic: Leszno parzysta (od Żelaznej do Karmelickiej) - Karmelicka...

Wywózki z szopów po I akcji.

getto po I akcji

szabrowane domy w getcie

In a cottage near the forest lived a Polish couple, who helped the partisans and refugees from the ghetto. In the wo...

a German Police station is located there

large grey building, closely guarded, even though seemingly deserted.

an elderly Polish woman sells apples: a messenger buys two apples and tries to learn something about the local Jews.

Po powstaniu w getcie w ruinach budynku przy Gęsiej 59 na 6 piętrze ukrywało się 8 młodych ludzi: 4 kobiety i 4 mężc...

the author hid there for a few days

there was the Jewish Hospital

a hideout and contact point; Michal Klepfisz lived with a Polish family in a two-room flat; the author comes here af...

Benjamin Miedzyrzecki, his parents and 11-year-old sister lived with Kartaszew, who was a guard.

in his plot a gardener built a shelter for Jews - Wladka cruises between the owner's flat and hiding people, brings...

Tadek Niewiarowski's hideout. Wladka talks with Zygmunt Igla there, who tries to get money in Warsaw for refugees fr...

in the Jewish cemetery in Gesia Street there was the author's father's grave; at the end of 1944 the cemetery was de...

one of the regions, in which operation groups of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) divided the ghetto; nine uni...

a perfect hideout: a bunker built by a gardener for Jews' money; there is a hidden entrance in the heated greenhouse...

Wladka Meed lives there; underground activists and messengers meet there

wall of the ghetto is along the street. Wladka can observe part of the city behind the wall

Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) fighters’ group hides there

Here the the Coordinating Committee wrote the appeal on behalf of the fighting ghetto. The place of Wladka Meed and...

The offices of Zytos (Centos - the Central Organisation for Orphan Care?); the last help organisations active in the...

Huge building is railway's property. Five Jews hid there- they were arrested by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) unit,...

A Jewish worker in the company took for Wladka photographs to false Kennkartes in hideouts.

perhaps Zoliborska Street? Meetings of the Jewish Cooordinating Committee (ZKK) take place there. Mikolaj- Leon Fein...

A Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) group, under Henoch Gutman's command, was stationed in the building opposite th...

Tadek and Kazik went to get a supply of weapons. Tadek died when the Gestapo arrested them red-handed.

There lived a Polish woman who helped the Jews, especially the Piotrkowskis, to get a job, documents and a place to...

A street in the ghetto near the wall in Swietojerska Street. In winter 1943 Fela Blit strolls down the street every...

An educated married couple, who had a six-year-old boy, gave hiding to Oles Blum.

Young Polish people lived there, Jankiel Celemenski shared a room with one of them.

A cafe, where the author met a Polish socialist and gave Janek money.

Jankiel Gruszka works there among others

Klara Falk and her son and engineer Golde hide there; in the basement of the house there is inhabitants' shelter, bu...

almost every evening smuggling to the ghetto went on through the hole in the wall

25-25 April 1943 Germans kill many 'parachutists' - Jews saving themselves by jumping from burning houses; corpses i...

elderly Poles, the Dubiels, live there; during the uprising in the ghetto the house is in ruin; the Biltowna sisters...

the place where Jurek Blones crosses through the wall after bribing a Polish police officer

on the sixth day of the uprising there was a position of two German groups armed with machine guns

a bunker, where apart from hiding Jews, Marek Edelman's fighters were stationed

on the eve of the uprising there were twice as many people as usual; messengers went to and fro, weapon is brought;...

as before the war, guides show tourists around, candles burn, people pray: Wladka considers the church an oasis of p...