Felicja karay biography of williams

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Narrator Her childhood ended when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. The German occupiers persecuted the Polish Jews from the first day onward, and after just a few months set up ghettos where the Jewish population was crowded together and isolated.

Felicja Schächter was a schoolgirl of twelve. Like all Jewish residents, she would have been required to wear an armband. However, her family fled Cracow. They tried to go into hiding, but could not find shelter anywhere.

Felicja karay biography of williams family

Ultimately they returned to the city. Felicja secretly entered the ghetto, where 15,000 people occupied flats in which formerly 3,000 had resided. The deportation of the residents to extermination camps began in 1942. Felicja was fifteen and, as such, was among those not murdered immediately.

The SS took her to the neighbouring Płaszów concentration camp, and a short time later to the Skarżysko-Kamienna Jewish forced labour camp belonging t