European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ma6a2h� about 10,000 Girioni or forced Toch Day from Hilr Fomil Iti Hui Bondi from win i and Moth a from  the Warsaw ghetto is no More of editor b not Twenty Yean ago on april 19, a the nazi began their final liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. Three month earlier they had set about Wip Ftp it out but had Ben delayed by the Strtt organised me fancy on the part of the desperately Opp Ennd be ii few Ewi who ought that last despairing Battle a two to ten of it. Thin it the tory of one who did by Bergman Borg for Apia t first there were about 500.000 of us packed i Ulde Thom ghetto Wall. None could leave without us risk of being hot. At the end there were perhaps 60,000 and with few exception they hied  pm chamber. Twenty Yean later it to not in me to brio it All Back. But i we Tell you the la the beginning the Natta divided the rat into two sections the ghetto proper awl an Industrial Section. German firms ran the work program. I worked As a tailor making uniforms for the German stay. The work was compulsory and brought no privileges. It a work when ordered or be  official food ration Lor each jew was about three loaves of bread some potatoes turnips and Jam each month. As time went on people died by the hundreds of hunger and disease. One Day. A Public notice appeared saying we would All be leaving the ghetto. The notice promised us we would be moved to some better place. At first some people believed it Anil Many volunteered to be the first to move. Those who showed reluctance were caught by police on the streets and forced Inlo trucks that rumbled out of the  10.000 persons were forced eur Day from their families husbands from their wives and mothers from their children. A few weeks after the first truck left we Learned where they went to the go Chambers of the extermination Camp in the Forest of Treblinka. I have reason to remember where Chi went my we my son and my father died there. On aug. 30. 1942. I came Home from my work and they were not then. They had gone on the trucks i never saw them again s3 chief Hel Nelch Himmler paid a per Sonal visit to the ghetto Early in january1943 and reprimanded his local lieutenant. Is maj Gen Juergen Stroop for fool dragging in the extermination pro Gram. About 70.000 jews still remained in the ghetto and Himmler wanted them re bottled at once. Sloop. According to rap tured documents told Tel motor that the German army reeling from the loss of Stalingrad had monopolized mom Means of transports ton. But he promised Xun Cal  such was the situation when a Lew named Jnson Pant Lewartowski App air a in the ghetto. Iff brought word thut the polish workers party Hud born founded and that he was its Central committee s Erni Sunry. I helped a Gln organizing groups of four or five to Al Shiby Means of in Bocage. We Oren i Ftp political instruction and Mali they  s role rite to an end when one Day he was pushed onto one of the Treblinka hound trucks but there Wen others to take bin place. The comr Nunila were not the Only secret resistance group in the ghetto. There were Many others und we decided we had to unify in order to fight. We set up the jewish fighting organization under the command of Morthell Aniel Ewerz. We began storing Arm and ammunition. Search by German wat part of Over Day ghetto life in Warsaw. Friday april 19, 1963 Warsaw jews or herded off to Gas Chambers. The stars and stripes we bought Samp from Polei outside Ike ghetto. Including polish policemen. Handsome from German Soldier. We also got firm from the polish workers party we him hiked in i is pm Truls fur h in  Nii flt i omit out of tin Box hand tin i a sorted on the jumpers with their Bones broken they Al Tell tried to crawl across the Street into buildings which had not yet been set on fire. The jews and Bandit often preferred to return into the flames than risk being caught by us. R Fol  of my unit withdrew to the Bunker in Leszno Street. Several Days 14 of us stayed there feeling the heat of the burning House Over our Heads. But we still managed to keep up Tome firing from the rubble. Stroop reported to Himmler More blocks of buildings were burned Down. This in the Only and final method which forces this trash and sub humanity to the  the enemy saw us shooting from the Leszno Street Bunker. They had tried  they used water trying to drawn us. They pumped water into our cellar Bunke for three Days. Luckily. We had Good dry linage. Somehow it still Wuh working la saved our lives. On May 8, an Lelewicz and his command Post in Ella Street was wiped out. We knew that a Vennt the end. Those of us in Leszno Street null i Home Elmo und Hen took an underground pit Siire under the Wall. But As soon us to emerged waiting germans mixed  were taken Buck to the ghetto und thin sent on truck. To Trch Linka Klinl resistance ended Atwuil a w a later. St nip titled his final r it the Warsaw ghetto is no  lit a is hanged after the War on the Situ it the ghetto instead of being gassed. I was Piik a among a very few from the Gnu Llo for work gang. I qua 8 111 Strong enough to work and that is Why i no alive Borg now 56, became a jewish Sochul worker after the Tvr. He remarried an lives in Warsaw with his wife and son fog 11