Ghetto

Ghetto

"My life cries out loud, it cries so that no child ever has to suffer like that"

"I felt danger. I knew that I was in danger and that I could have died at any minute. I always thought that I was going to be next. Actually I was expecting death. I’m no longer sure if I was scared," - a survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, Krystyna Budnicka told Magda Łucyan, a reporter from "Fakty" TVN and the author of the series of conversations: "The Ghetto". "No, I didn’t cry then and I don’t cry today. I don’t have tears," she revealed.

"I witnessed that. I saw people being transported to death camps"

"In the beginning, it was death by hunger. They squeezed a whole lot of people from smaller towns in a very small area. They had absolutely no means to make a living. They were dying of hunger, Yes. They simply had no chance to make a living. The hunger was terrible," a survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, Hanna Wehr said in a conversation with Magda Łucyan from "Fakty" TVN.

"Bodies, or actually skeletons, were being covered with newspapers"

"Children grew up immediately. Basically, I became an adult within a few months," said Marian Kalwary in conversation with Magda Łucyan, a reporter from "Fakty" TVN and the author of series of interviews with ghetto survivors entitled "The Ghetto". He added that he still remembers some images from the district closed off with walls and fences - children begging in the streets and dead bodies lying on the pavement "or actually skeletons, were being covered with newspapers".

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When the ghetto was finally closed [off], there was fear and terror and death on the streets. I didn’t want to be a Jew. I was trying to escape all that happened, since I had entered the ghetto and in my later years. That’s because being a Jew meant only misfortune for me. Being a Jew was a misfortune - said Agata Bołdok in conversation with Magda Łucyan, a reporter from "Fakty" TVN and the author the series of conversations with Warsaw Ghetto survivors: "The Ghetto".