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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Mietek (Mieczyslav) Eichel was born 1931 in Warsaw, Poland; son of Chaim Eichel and Regina Majerowicz. | Mietek (Mieczyslav) Eichel was born 1931 in Warsaw, Poland; son of Chaim Eichel and Regina Majerowicz. Under Nazi occupation, the family was forced to live in the [[Warsaw Ghetto]]. "To buy food ... every day my brother and I left the ghetto ... Every day I had to fight with Polish boys who tried to take what I had from me." | ||
On July 25 1942 his entire family was sent to Treblinka. "Only [my friend] Heniek Bursztyn and my brother and I were left." In January 1943 they survived another Aktion. They took refuge on the Aryan side two weeks before the uprising. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 05:11, 29 September 2020
Mietek Eichel (M / Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Warsaw Ghetto> <Street Children> -- <Lublin Orphanage>
- MEMOIRS : The Children Accuse (1946), 3-7 -- The Root and the Bough (1949), 284-293
Biography
Mietek (Mieczyslav) Eichel was born 1931 in Warsaw, Poland; son of Chaim Eichel and Regina Majerowicz. Under Nazi occupation, the family was forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto. "To buy food ... every day my brother and I left the ghetto ... Every day I had to fight with Polish boys who tried to take what I had from me."
On July 25 1942 his entire family was sent to Treblinka. "Only [my friend] Heniek Bursztyn and my brother and I were left." In January 1943 they survived another Aktion. They took refuge on the Aryan side two weeks before the uprising.