I Survived Auschwitz, Krystyna Zywulska
I got this book while visiting the camps as well as the one reviewed below (By Bread Alone). The account is tremendously different for very important reasons. 1) It's a different person. Obviously. But 2) The subject is a woman, and 3) She was not a Jew--as far as I could tell. It was difficult to understand this point exactly. She was labeled in the camp as a political prisoner from Poland, and she was treated as such--not an immediate target for execution as the Jews were, yet references I find online suggest she somehow masked her true identity. I think it may go beyond my knowledge of Jewish and Polish names, because it was very clear that she kept her real name a secret, which perhaps has Jewish origins. Most Holocaust accounts I've read are written by Jewish men, so the perspective of a political prisoner (whether she was Jewish or not is irrelevant, because she was treated as a political prisnoer) and a woman who works registering those next in line to die, is fascinating for this completely different perspective. It goes to show that even if their suffering was "logically" less, it's still far too immense to imagine. Another good read.
posted by christen roberts @ 4:23 PM
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Krystyna Zywulska was a Jewish woman, who managed to keep her name, she gave herself during her restinant work in the Warszaw Ghetto. She is born as "Sonja Landau".
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Constanze Jaiser, Berlin
I confirm, That my mother Krystyna Zywulska was Jewish.
Hers initial name was Sonia LANDAU.
After she escapes from Warsaw’s ghetto, she forks in underground falsifying the documents for the polish resistant’s and other escaped.
At this time she worked together with Zofia CZERWINSKA (known by Gestapo as “black Zosia”) and her new invented name was Zofia WISNIEWSKA (known by Gestapo as “blond Zosia”).
Captured by Gestapo, during the cross-examination, as they asked if she is Jewish, she replied:”Of course not”. They asked, if the name “Zofia WISNIEWSKA” is a true-one, and for 2 reasons she answered: “No, is not. My true name is Krystyna ZYWULSKA”.
The 2 reasons was: 1st – she wanted to become more credible showing, that she try to tell the trough even if it was dangerous, 2nd - she wanted to help Zosia CZERWINSKA, that for getting supplementary alimentary tickets prepared falsified papers of a person that died since long time – real Krystyna ZYWULSKA.
After the war, all the original papers disappeared, she keept the name, and even more, she keept the birth date of May, 28th 1918 instead of the real, September 1st 1914.
Tadeusz ANDRZEJEWSKI
Hello,
I'm sorry for my bad English :
I am going to finish "J'ai survécu à Auschwitz".
Of course, I cried.
I would like to know what it happens after the last day when she walked and she escaped? How she did to come back home ?
what about Zosia and Basia ?
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