Polish Heroes

Role: survivor
Audience: Grandchild
Format: letter
Topic: My family
February 2 2012

Dear grandchild


This letter is for you and I want to tell you how I could survive to this tragedy. As a Jewish man I was persecuted by German military army. They wanted to kill us for different political and economics reasons. We were afraid everyday because in each corner we could find the death by German government. That period in my life was terrible and I will never be able to forget everything I lived.

I was living with my family in Poland. My wife and my two children. We didn’t have many friends there. We were almost alone in that country, especially during the war.
My wife was working as a house keeper for a very wealthy family and I was working in a sell-car company as a manager. My children, all of them, just were studying. But, someday, the war became stronger and the persecution more intensive. Therefore, my wife had to leave her job and we had to move to another city.

In the new city, we met a wonderful polish man who provides support and help during that period of war. I met his family and the huge house where they lived. When the German soldiers went to the city looking for us, they couldn’t find us because this family sent us to a subway behind the house and the soldiers couldn’t discover the place where we were staying.

Thanks this polish family, I am alive together with my wife and children. I am working with this man in his factory and my wife is stayed with the children.

Someday you will tell the same story somebody else.

Sincerely