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Early 1942, Warsaw, ghetto. Account of Salomea L., a refugee, ענעי ןופֿ” “טפֿעה רעט–2 .טײַז [“From the other side. Notebook 2”] recorded by Rabbi Shimon Huberband,139 on the situation of the Jewish population at the territories under Soviet occupation and the first weeks of the German occupation in Białystok and Lwów
[1] From the other side (obtained from a migrant). Second notebook.
[1a] Salomea L. is now nearly 24 years old. Before the war she was a mathematics student at the University of Warsaw. She graduated from a public primary school in 1932 and, with the help of the school, obtained a scholarship to a private secondary school in Warsaw. She graduated from secondary schoolin 1937.
She comes from a working-class family with petit-bourgeois attitudes. Her father left home when Salomea was one year old. Her mother married a master bootmaker who worked in a large factory, a widower with a son the same age as Salomea. Her stepfather was very well disposed towards Salomea. The family was very tightly knit and devoted to one another. There was no “yours and mine”, no perceptible difference between the family members. Her stepbrother became a good friend to her over time.
Salomea L. is an intelligent student, an independently-minded young woman with mature, definite views. She has a broad outlook and a critical approach to every issue.
While a student, she became acquainted with communism in MOPR140circles and became an activist.
