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Antoni Łapiński

"I don't remember there being any differences among us young people," he says about Polish-Jewish relations in the pre-war period,

Eugene Tyrajski

“There were no people in my environment who had a negative attitude towards Jewish society,” says Eugeniusz Tyrajski (1926-2019), aka.

Elizabeth Brzuska

Elżbieta Brzuska (born 1939) was saved from the Warsaw Ghetto by the married couple Halina and Stanisław Brzuska. When asked if they were

Michael Bauer

“There was a constant hostility towards Jews” – this is the image of Polish-Jewish relations in Vilnius before the war presented by

Jerzy Mindziukiewicz

"I saw terribly emaciated children stretching out their arms... and those carts of people dying of hunger..." - such is the image of the Warsaw Ghetto

Stanisława Kociełowicz

"Jews were hidden in every larger house," says Stanisława Kociełowicz née Kowalewska (born 1930),

Zbigniew Daab

"It never occurred to me that a person could be sold for money" – this is how Zbigniew Daab, nom de guerre Kapiszon (born in 1939), comments on the blackmailers.

Elizabeth Borowiak

"We are very excited about it, every time our daughter goes there, she always lights a candle," she recalls.

Catherine Meloch

"If I didn't like you so much, you would be lying here in a ditch with your Jewish friends," Katarzyna recalls the words of a German soldier.

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