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Swimming under water / Halina Zylberman.

Title
Swimming under water / Halina Zylberman.
Author
Zylberman, Halina.
Publication
Caulfield South, Vic. : Makor Jewish Community Library, 2001.

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Description
152 p., [18] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports.; 21 cm.
Summary
Memoirs of a Jew born in 1928 in Kraków, the only child of an assimilated family. In 1941 the family took on non-Jewish identities and went into hiding, aided by Polish friends. Describes how Zylberman and her parents survived as "Aryans" in Warsaw, to where they had moved, and how they avoided being denounced by Jewish "Jew-spotters" working for the Gestapo. For safety reasons, she and her mother lived separately from her father, who also underwent an operation to "correct" his circumcision. In 1944 Zylberman and her mother were employed as kitchen aids by the German army, and were evacuated with the soldiers when they withdrew from Warsaw. For a brief moment in Pionki, Zylberman and her mother were suspected of being Jewish, but a Polish priest came to their rescue. They were reunited with her father, who had survived toward the end of the war in Kielce, and returned to Kraków.
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Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Personal narratives
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1876733144
  • 9781876733148
OCLC
  • 222992515
  • SCSB-11482450
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library