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From the collection of the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center
Abraham Cykiert was born in 1926. He came from an orthodox Jewish
family. His father, Mosze, ran a small business in Bałuty, sewing gloves; he was
also an agent for a tea production company. The Cykierts lived at 2, Młynarska
Street. In 1940, the tenement house in which he lived and the entire Jewish
quarter became part of the ghetto. He worked as a messenger between
Bałucki Rynek (Bałuty Market the seat of Chaim Rumkowski) and the Vegetable
Department. ‘I survived because some people liked my poems,’ he explained
years later. In August 1944, along with his mother and two sisters, he was
deported to Auschwitz. After a few weeks he was sent to Buchenwald, where he
was liberated by the Americans in April 1945. In 1948, he arrived in Australia
and settled in Melbourne. He was a famous poet, journalist and playwright.
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