The Holocaust Survivors’ Memoirs Project

Menachem Katz relates his escape from the mowing down of the last Jews of Brzezany at the cemetery in 1943 through his experiences hiding in a bunker with seven other people. He describes life in hiding in detail as well as the relathionship with a family of Poles who assisted them in survival, and relates the severe difficulties of daily existence in the closed and crowded spaces. alongsode some moments of humor. Katz succeeded in locating members of the Polish family that saved him, and they were honored as Righteous Among the Nations.

Marcel Tuchman | Foreword by Deborah E. Lipstadt

Leon Frim

Isabelle Choko-Sztrauch-Galewska; Frances Irwin; Lotti Kahana Aufleger; Margit Raab Kalina; Jane Lipski