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Pola Lifszyc
(19??-1942?)
‘Pola stormed into her house, saw that her mother was
gone – her mother was already being corralled into
Umschlagplatz in a column [of people] – so Pola ran after
that column on her own, she pursued the crowd from Leszno
to Stawki Street, her fiancé gave her a lift in a rickshaw,
so that she could make it on time, and she did. At the last
moment, she mingled with the crowd to accompany her
mother to the train carriage… (…) Who knows about Pola
Lifszyc? And yet it was her, Pola, who could have gone to the
Aryan side, because she was young and pretty, didn’t look
Jewish, so her chances were a hundred times better’.

Marek
Edelman