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Diary of Abraham Lewin. Manuscript in Hebrew.
ARG II/0202

Abraham Lewin was a writer and teacher in the Warsaw Yehudia school for girls before the war and kept a diary from March 26, 1942, to January 16, 1943 which is one of the most valuable known testimonies contained in the Ringelblum archives. His wife was arrested on August 12, 1943. He and his adolescent daughter were assassinated on January 18, 1943, when the Aktion resumed.
Tuesday August 11.
“Brutal expulsion from the ‘little ghetto’. Entire buildings were emptied of their tenants whose belongings were abandoned then and there. Christians have already begun looting…”