back...A Personal File of a Prisoner of the Camp on Przemyslowa Street Found

Documents from the only surviving personal camp file of Gertruda Nowak - a former inmate of the camp for Polish children on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź. The Museum’s staff has learned the story of the little Polen-Jugendverwahraler Litzmannstadt prisoner thanks to the archival materials from the girl's personal camp file which she has rescued herself.

In their search for records documenting the crimes committed in the German camp on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź, historians of the Museum of Polish Children - victims of totalitarianism have reached a file kept in the private collection of Alicja Hetmańska, daughter of Gertruda Nowak. On the basis of the documents, the Museum's staff compiled a book entitled: ‘Niezwykła polska rodzina. Losy Gertrudy Nowak – dziecka z obozu na Przemysłowej’ [‘An extraodrinary Polish family. The fate of Gertruda Nowak – a child from the camp on Przemysłowa Street’].

Alicja Hetmańska donated the priceless records to the Museum during the ‘1st scientific and didactic conference of the Museum of Polish Children – victims of totalitarianism. Polen-Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt in the context of German crimes against Polish children during World War II.’