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Natalie Zamczyk - January 30, 1984

Contents

Natalie Zamczyk was born in Krakow, Poland in 1911. Natalie was married and the mother of one son when the war started. Though her entire family; brother, sister, parents and husband, perished, Natalie sent her son into hiding and survived the war by moving from job to job using forged documents. After the war, Natalie and her son immigrated to Canada, then to the United States, eventually settling in Farmington Hills.

  1. Introduction
  2. Family
  3. Husband's Religion
  4. Family II
  5. Community
  6. Church
  7. Parents
  8. School
  9. Married Life
  10. Pre-war anti-Semitism
  11. Pre-war anti-Semitism II
  12. Pre-War Life
  13. War
  14. War II
  15. Germans Enter the City
  16. Family Business
  17. Occupation
  18. Leaving the City
  19. The Ghetto
  20. Evacuation
  21. Parents Transported
  22. False Papers
  23. False Papers II
  24. Leaving Krakow
  25. Miendzyrzec Podlaski
  26. Working
  27. Jews Executed
  28. Miendzyrzec Podlaski II
  29. Leaving Miendzyrzec Podlaski
  30. Husband Arrested
  31. Warsaw
  32. Friends
  33. Friends II
  34. Suspicion
  35. Warsaw II
  36. Warsaw III
  37. Polish Uprising
  38. Polish Uprising II
  39. Search for Son
  40. Working II
  41. Russians Arrive
  42. Reunion With Son
  43. 1946
  44. 1946 II
  45. Post-War Life
  46. Post-War Life II
  47. Post-War Life III
  48. Leaving Poland
  49. Canada
  50. Life After Immigration
  51. Life After Immigration II
  52. Remembering the Ghetto
  53. Remembering the Ghetto II
  54. Remembering the War
  55. Remembering the War II
  56. Reflection
  57. Reflection II
  58. Reflection III
  59. Reflection IV
  60. Uprising III
  61. Later Years
  62. Conclusion

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