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The situation for local Jews deteriorated quickly, and soon, the Perechodniks with their infant daughter, Athalie, were forced to relocate to the newly established Otwock ghetto, where many Otwock Jews were stripped of their livelihoods. To keep his family alive, Calek joined the Jewish Ghetto Police.\u003cbr\u003eIn August 1942, as the ghetto was liquidated, Perechodnik believed assurances that his position would protect his family, and so he brought Anka and Athalie to the assembly point, only to realize too late that he had been deceived. His wife and daughter were deported to Treblinka and murdered.\u003cbr\u003eLeft behind with the other Jewish policemen, Perechodnik blamed himself for his family’s death. After escaping into hiding, he wrote his unflinching account of wartime events, addressing them directly to his wife and daughter whom he could not save. 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