Arie Shilansky

Arie’s family was one of the last family’s entering Siauliai Ghetto and were used as labour power for the Germans, receiving 150-gram bread a day. Those who were found smuggling food were beaten and whipped in front of the whole ghetto.

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Sam Laskier

I remember being very impressed by the German troops when they marked in and occupied Warsaw. Unfortunately, we were heavily bombed and the Jewish district was extensively damaged. Almost immediately, there was an acute shortage of food in our neighbourhood - which by now was a ghetto.

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Sabina Miller 1922-2018

Sabina was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922 and she tells is that she had a 'wonderful childhood. We were 4 children - 2 brothers, 2 sisters. It was a loving, beautiful childhood. Our parents played with us every evening.' Sabina Miller suffered typhus as a teenager in the Warsaw ghetto in 1940 and was unconscious for 18 days. When she awoke her parents were gone and she would never see them again.

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Zigi Shipper

Zigi was born on 18th January 1930, to a Jewish family in Lodz, Poland and attended a Jewish school. When he was five years old his parents divorced but because they were Orthodox Jews and divorce was frowned upon, he was told that his mother had died. He lived with his father and his grandparents.

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