Spotkałam ludzi : historia o tragicznym początku i niezwykłym zakończeniu
Memoirs of a Polish Jew born in Kolomyja, now Ukraine, to the family of a shop owner; she had two older brothers. With the Nazi occupation in 1941, one of her brothers, Salek (Israel), fled to the USSR. Her second brother was murdered during a roundup; Wermuth and her parents were deported and jumped from the train, but her father was killed. She lived for some time (separated from her mother) with various people. At the age of 14, pretending to be 17, she went to Germany to work as a Pole. Describes her life in Germany, first in a factory, and later as a helper in a German family. After the war she returned to Poland and married a Pole whom she had met in Germany. She assumed that her entire family had perished, but after the fall of communism, with the help of a Jewish group newly organized in Poland, she found her brother Salek in 1994. He had been living in London since the end of the war and had become a well-known journalist, Victor Zorza. Presents also the life story of her brother. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, Polish, ©2002
Media Rodzina, Poznań, ©2002