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before the so-called Sperre or afterwards. Even an attempt to de-
termine the season of the year usually only allows me to determine
whether it was warm or cold at the time. Therefore, I have trans-
ferred the saved memory traces onto paper without controlling
their chronology. In fact, I can only quite accurately determine the
moment of entering the ghetto (but not the exact date!) and leaving
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it with the last transport in October 1944 . It is almost impossible
for me to establish the order of events between these facts.

Prologue

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I was born on December 27 , 1933 in Lodz. I was the only
child of my Parents, not so young at the time. My Mom was 36
when I was born, my Dad was ten years older. Mom, Halina
(Chaja) nee Menkes was a daughter of Awadia and Tauba (nee
Szacka). My Grandfather was a bookkeeper and my Grandmother
a seamstress. My Mom was the eldest of five siblings (she had two
sisters – Rebeka, called Regina, and Rachela, and two brothers –
Jakub and Pinchas, whom we called Pawel at home). Dad, (Juda
Leon), son of Michal and Zofia (Zlata) nee Danielewicz, had only
one brother who had died before I was born. They were my closest
relatives, but with all my cousins and other relatives, we were a very
large family. My Parents met in Lodz and got married there in
1925, although Mom originally came from Bialystok, where she
graduated from high school with honors, and my Dad from War-
saw.
Dad came to Lodz in 1905. He was 16 then, strongly left-wing
politically and wanted to take part in demonstrations for workers'

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The discrepancy between the date of the liquidation of the ghetto (August 29th,
1944) and our deportation (around October 20th, 1944) is explained in detail in the
chapter "Last Days".

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