The Wspólna Community, the Ogrodowa Commune, and the Szczęśliwa Quartet: How Jewish "Robinsons" Fought for Survival
They lived in the darkness of damp, cold cellars in the eerie ruins that had once been Warsaw. They had no idea how long their ordeal would last. Sometimes they didn't even know where they would get their next morsel of food, their next sip of water. Hunted by the Germans, who called them "rats," they were killed on the spot. Despite this, several hundred "Robinsons"—as they were called—mostly Jews—survived the Soviets' entry into Warsaw. Here are the stories of three groups, […]
Photo report | Off-site seminar "Hasag – German forced labor camp"
Another two-day MGW off-site seminar for teachers and educators has concluded. This time, thirty participants from across Poland visited sites associated with the German forced labor camp "Hasag" in Częstochowa and Skarżysko-Kamienna, as well as the forced labor camp and Majdanek branch in Bliżyn. The first stop was the site of the former Hasag-Pelcery ammunition plant in Częstochowa, where approximately 4 Jews worked between 1942 and 1945, arriving mainly after the extermination of the Częstochowa "small ghetto." […]