Nina Boniowna
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Nina Boniowna (F / Poland, 1930), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Warsaw Ghetto> <Hidden Children, Poland> <Aryan Side>
- MEMOIRS : The Children Accuse (1946), 7-11.
Biography
Nina Boniowna (Boniowka) was born July 20, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland, to Aron and Fajga Cynksztajn. After the ghetto uprising, she was one of the few who managed to cross to the Aryan side. "I was living in a village right on the Vistula ... On January 15 1945 the victorious Red Army entered Warsaw. It was only then that I began to cry ... It was only now that I felt the absence of those dear to me, the lack of schooling and education."
"The author was in the Warsaw ghetto. She lost her mother during the ghetto uprising. She was taken to the Aryan side and hid in the countryside until the end of the occupation. Liberation by the Red Army on January 15, 1945."