POLIN Reading Room: Discussion about the book: PAMIĘTNIKI Z MIŁOSNEJ. PAMIĘTNIK Z GETTA WARSZAWSKIEGO. MIŁOŚĆ W CIENIU ŚMIERCI [Memoirs from Miłosna. Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto. Love in the Shadow of Death] Henryk Makower Noemi Makower, Wydawnictwo Austeria (Austeria Publishing House)

Ulica Wolność [Freedom Street], or rather its half divided by a wall, leads to the Jewish cemetery. The only freedom the Jews still have in the ghetto is the freedom to die. Anyway, even the name of this street was too revolutionary for the Germans, so they changed it to Uhrmacherstrasse [Clockmaker’s Street].

Henryk Makower

I would like to survive this war and still have children with my dear Maniek. Children who have never seen conflagration, murder and the animalisation of human nature, children who will not see this, who will live in a happy country without wars and racial antagonism. I write what I feel, but I know it is impossible. Firstly because it is unlikely that we will survive, and secondly, is there a country in the world where there will not be war in the future? War has become so intertwined with the history of humanity that I think it will disappear from the face of the earth along with the life of that humanity.

Noemi Makower

Noemi Wigdorowicz-Makower (born in 1912 in Warsaw, died in 2015 in Stockholm) – a Polish dentist of Jewish origin, a long-time researcher at the Medical Academy in Wrocław. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Warsaw. In 1940, she was relocated to the ghetto, where she worked in the dentist’s surgery and the community outpatient clinic. She met her husband, Henry Makower, in the ghetto. After escaping from the ghetto, they both hid in Miłosna near Warsaw. Like her husband, she joined the People’s Polish Army as a volunteer in 1944. From 1946, she worked at the Dental Clinic of the University of Wrocław, where she gained individual academic titles, and in 1977 was awarded the title of associate professor.

Henryk Makower (born in 1904 in Kalisz, died in 1964 in Wrocław) – a Polish physician and researcher of Jewish origin, professor of microbiology at the Medical Academy in Wrocław. He studied biology at Vilnius University and then medicine at Jagiellonian University. After graduating, he worked as an internist in Łódź until the outbreak of war. In 1940, he was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto, where he was head of the infectious department at the Children’s Hospital; he took part in the fight against typhus. In 1942, he married Noemi Wigdorowicz. After the war, he took up the post of assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology of the University of Wrocław. He worked as a professor in the Department of Virology at the Institute

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Date

22 March 2023
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Time

19:30

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Online
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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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