Lazarz Krakowski

Lazarz Krakowski (M / Poland, 1935), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Katowice Ghetto> <Hidden Children>

• MEMOIRS : The Children Accuse (1946), 125-126

Biography

Lazarz Krakowski was born March 23, 1935 in Katowice, Poland. Son of Chil and Necha Blumstein.

"... When my mother was sent away to do forced labour, the next day my father handed me over to Wlada ... After I left the ghetto, on June 23 1943, until November 1944, I stayed in the flat the whole time, mostly under the bed ... The days were terrible, sitting the whole time without moving in that stuffy room ... On November 1944 I went to live with the uncle of a lady I knew in the village of Bonowice. The uprising in Warsaw had just finished and they could take me in as a child whose parents had died in the uprising. There I came back to life ... Here I was liberated by the Russians. I stayed in the country till 1 May 1945. I went to school; I was popular there, and I was very happy."