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Introduction

From my earliest school years, I always knew that in the future
I would like to be a doctor taking care of children. Therefore, after
high school, I chose studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the Med-
ical Academy in Lodz. After graduation I started working as a pe-
diatrician and neonatologist and I devoted 52 years of my profes-
sional work to children at the earliest stage of their lives. In 2010,
at the age of 76, I decided to retire.
With more free time on my hands, I was able to try to access
the recesses of my memory and extract what I remembered from
those years, rightly called the years of contempt, when surviving
each day was bordering on improbability. Admittedly, there is
a wealth of literature relating to life in the Lodz ghetto, but despite
the similar fates of those who survived and described them, indi-
vidual experiences were different. Therefore, I think that my ob-
servations, although seen through the eyes of a child, can contrib-
ute something to the broadening of the knowledge on the Lodz
ghetto.
For the first time, I shared my memories in the publication
Children of the Holocaust speak... , however, due to the requirement
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to confine my statements to only a few pages of print and a very
close deadline for the text submission, they were necessarily very
limited.
Recreating the events of so many years ago is not easy. For
although many, sometimes even very small details from that period
have been preserved in my memory, I am completely unable to
place them in a timeline. I am unable to tell if a given event took
place earlier than others, whether it was, for instance, 1941 or 1943,

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Dzieci Holocaustu mówią… (Children of the Holocaust Speak ...) edited by W. Sliwowska,
by Association of Children of the Holocaust in Poland, Warsaw 1993, pp. 199-202

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