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not reveal her "improper" origin, which she refused to accept. So
deeply engraved was in her memory her mother's warning, who,
when pushing her out of the transport, told her never to admit that
she was Jewish.

My Parents decided to stay in Lodz, where they both returned
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to their previous professions. Dad died on March 20 , 1958, and
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Mom on December 26 , 1968. They are both buried in Lodz at the
Doly cemetery. Aunt Reginka, uncle Salek and his brother Moryc
left Poland shortly after the end of the war and lived in the United
States in Cleveland (Ohio) until the end of their lives.

And that is all – so little and so much.

Acknowledgements

After having dotted the last sentence, it is time to give thanks.
I had no problem with whom to start. I have known for a long
time that I owe it to someone who had contributed the most to
this work, although he did not see a single line of it. How is this
possible? Let me explain.

In December 1961 I got married. After the wedding, I moved
into my husband's house and became Marek Edelman's closest
(wall-to-wall) neighbor. During all that time, this relationship re-
sulted in a great friendship that Marek bestowed on us. Over the
years, he kept persuading me to write down and publish my mem-
ories of the Holocaust. I replied that I had no intention of doing
so. On the contrary, I tried, without much success, to forget them.
Get rid of the nightmares that haunt me to this day. But Marek
persisted. “Do you think you survived because you were so smart?
So brave and clever? No! You live only because during every day
and every moment you were surrounded by those who struggled

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