The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment and survived the Holocaust hidden on the “Aryan” side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith’s shed.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
History of the Translation
PART I THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WARSAW GHETTO
1. The coming Event
2. Shop Frenzy
3. The Noose draws tighter
4. Roundups in full Swing
5. Goodbye to our Apartment
6. Temporarily at Flantzman's
7. Dysentery
8. Our new Apartment
9. "Resettlement to the East"
10. Hiding on the Grounds of the K. G. Schultz Factory
11. Jadzia's Brother's Family taken
12. Massacre in Otwock
13. The Trap springs shut
14. March to the Umschlagplatz
15. Night on the Umschlagplatz
16. Next Morning
17. The Miracle
18. Back in Jadzia's Apartment
19. Making Contact with the "Aryan Side"
20. My Husband's narrow Escape
21. The Ghetto completely sealed off
22. Miła Street
23. In the Ursus Workers' Quarters
24. Bedbugs, Rats, Extortion
25. Mr. Braun
26. The last Can of condensed Milk
27. Rosh Hashana, 1942
28. Escape from Miła Street
29. Back at my Sister's
30. Jula promises to help
31. Finding a Way out of the Ghetto
32. My first, failed Attempt
33. On the Aryan Side at last
34. My Husband follows
PART II ON THE ARYAN SIDE. IN THE OLD TINSMITH'S SHED
35. Setting up Shop
36. My new Home and Neighbors
37. I commit Suicide
38. Zosia shows her true Colors
39. Mrs. Zieliński
40. Letters back and forth
41. Mrs. Zieliński disappoints
42. Christmas Holidays, 1942
43. New Year's, 1943. Reunion with my Husband
44. My Husband is denounced to the Police
45. I wake up screaming
46. At Mrs. Michalski's
47. New Blackmailers from the Będkowskis
48. Separate Lives in Hiding
49. My Husband is arrested
50. Ransoming my Husband
51. The Month of March
52. The Jewish Ghetto Uprising
53. My Ride across Town in a Trunk
54. Back in the old Tinsmith's Shop
55. Our Life in the Attic
56. May and the first Half of June, 1943
57.Ways Jews were discovered
58. Maniek detained and released
59. Maniek Caught with a Cache of Arms
60. In the Wake of Maniek's Arrest
61. Our new Cubby Hole
62. Mr. Michalski's Drinking Problem
63. News of Maniek's Execution
64. Preparing for the Uprising
PART III THE WARSAW UPRISING OF 1944. EVACUATION AND LIBERATION
65. The Uprising breaks out
66. Rounded up by the Germans
67. The Detention Camp in Pruszków
68.Working on the Farm in Janków
69. Murderous Partisans
70. In the Ruins of Warsaw
71. Reuniting Zygmunt's Wife with Jurek and Waldek
72. My Husband located
73. My Husband's Story
74. Escape through the Sewers
75. My Husband's Story concluded: From Warsaw to Grodzisk
76. Out of Grodzisk
77. Smuggling Sugar in Milanówek
78. Arrested in Piaseczno
79. Imprisonment
80. Liberation
Epilogue
Afterword by Arthur Schmidt
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