Museum of the history of polish jews

Can we cheat a numbers?

Zbigniew Zieliński became acquainted with many Jews. He knew who he could talk freely with and who he should avoid. The Ghetto was shrinking. Day by day the Jews were moved to concentration camps (10 000 people in 24h). Every Jew wanted to move somehow to the Aryan side. Ryszard’s father was thinking how to take as many Jews as possible. Some Ghetto inhabitants worked on the ‘other’ side of the wall. It was a chance to escape. But not so simple. Every time the Germans were counting how many Jews left the Ghetto and when they came back. When the Jews were returning from the ‘Aryan’ factories he dropped into the row and put the Jewish armband on so that one of workers could run away. Mr Zieliński had a pass from the Ghetto where he was working so he could go back home freely. These kind of actions were so dangerous that if he was caughed he would never come back from the factory.
At his work he met Kaziemierz and Paulina Berek...

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