Page 50 - Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana. Edelman. The Man
P. 50
Adina Blady-Szwajger
(1917-1993)
‘It was a beautiful day in July. This was still before the
ghetto was closed. I came to the hospital in a very pretty
pre-war dress-suit made of crepe fabric. Crepe is important
here, because it mustn’t get wet. I went to the window, and
there was Marek watering the lawn in front of the building.
When he saw me, he calmly directed the hose towards me.
I jumped out of the window, it was on the ground floor, and
we started fighting on the lawn’.
Adina Blady-Szwajger
Adina Blady-Szwajger was a doctor in the Warsaw ghetto.
She administered her own portion of cyanide to the children
she was taking care of, in order to spare them the horror
of transport and death in gas chambers. After the war she
moved to Łódź. Shortly before her death Marek Edelman
encouraged her to write her memoirs.
