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but it was too late, as most of them had already been sent.

And she was sent, as I know, probably either to Bełzec or to Treblinka and there she terminated her life.

Helping Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto

At some moment, to get a contact with the ghetto,

I did not work, I just got an ID card from the Team of Receivers of Jewish Properties in Warsaw.

It was the lawyer Jarczyk. It was based in 6 Królewska Street.

I had this ID from him and on this base I could get into the ghetto.

I helped organizing transport of food.

There were gates to get to the ghetto which were guarded by Germans.

And there Jews were dealing with Germans. I do not know how much they paid them.

Germans let the cart go into the ghetto with food

and they even escorted it to the right place as the Jewish police was worse than the Gestapo.

And then a German escorted it to the place where everything was unloaded.

Of course for bribe. They always took bribes.

I met people who had a right to enter the ghetto, who delivered firewood.

Janek M., I do not want to say his last name, he delivered firewood to the ghetto.

Coal, wood, in every cart.

He also had a big horse company, transport company as there were no cars at that time,

so under every coal or wood there was food hidden.

And if he had been kept for helping Jews...