Rescuers of Jews
Fira Kantorovič remembers
Mother had to live in the same room with the archive employee Marija Mikulska, who kindly agreed to take her in and keep her as her aunt from the province.
Mother was brought to Mikulska in the evening. In the morning, she went to the bathroom to wash herself and did not come back for quite some time. Marija went to look what had happened and was terrified to see the old woman lying on the floor breathless. Death must have struck suddenly and the exhausted body of an old woman, who had gone through a lot of misery in the ghetto, could not resist it. (P. 37)
Workers from the ghetto came at 8 o’clock. The event had to be concealed from them at all costs. Hardly able to overcome herself, Marija tried to look calm. She ran across the entire city to Mr. Stakauskas to warn him of the disaster. (P. 38)
When archive workers would leave, Mikulska would lock the front door tight, climb up the stairs to the top storey and knock on the floor with a poker three times. It was an agreed sign that the premises were empty and that we could go up. We would silently climb up to the second storey one by one, clean up and take the prepared products and fuel. In the meantime, Mikulska would give us the latest news. /.../ (P. 39)
Mother had to live in the same room with the archive employee Marija Mikulska, who kindly agreed to take her in and keep her as her aunt from the province.
Mother was brought to Mikulska in the evening. In the morning, she went to the bathroom to wash herself and did not come back for quite some time. Marija went to look what had happened and was terrified to see the old woman lying on the floor breathless. Death must have struck suddenly and the exhausted body of an old woman, who had gone through a lot of misery in the ghetto, could not resist it. (P. 37)
Workers from the ghetto came at 8 o’clock. The event had to be concealed from them at all costs. Hardly able to overcome herself, Marija tried to look calm. She ran across the entire city to Mr. Stakauskas to warn him of the disaster. (P. 38)
When archive workers would leave, Mikulska would lock the front door tight, climb up the stairs to the top storey and knock on the floor with a poker three times. It was an agreed sign that the premises were empty and that we could go up. We would silently climb up to the second storey one by one, clean up and take the prepared products and fuel. In the meantime, Mikulska would give us the latest news. /.../ (P. 39)