Hadassah M.

[...] [At Schultz’s workshop] people worked at furriery, shoemaking, [and] various trades. One of the largest shops. At that time I still had an uncle, a brother, and a sister. We were [living] together. In 1943 after the ghetto purge we perceived that the time was coming for Schultz’s as well. During the second Seder night we went down into the bunker, entirely under the ground, very deep underground. Without windows, air, or anything.Thirty-odd people were living in that bunker. We had been preparing for months in advance. We knew that a moment would arrive when they would make Warsaw completely Jew-free. [...]

Interviewer: How did people sleep and eat there?

We had made makeshift beds. As for eating, we lived on whatever we could. Because food did not enter one’s mind. They took us out on a Friday at one o’clock. [Earlier] the same day people who were discovered in bunkers were taken to the headquarters of the Jewish Council and shot. Fate wanted us to remain alive, and we were taken out and searched. [...]