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Irena Sendler
operations extracting Jewish children from the ghetto and plac-
ing them into one or another of the Section’s care centers, on
the basis of falsified records and interviews, after arranging the
DAVID J. COHEN ©WWW One hero of the story is Nachum Remba.
He was not a doctor but a 32-year-old clerk in
Private Investigator the Judenrat offices. He was also a member of the
Jewish resistance. Nachum had a crazy idea. He
DJC Investigative Group and Ala pretended that they had permission to
Licensed And Bonded - NY • Licensed - Maryland set up a medical clinic. Nachum Remba
convinced the Germans that he was the chief
Specializing in Civil and doctor in the ghetto and Ala was the chief nurse.
Criminal Investigations
Cell Phone: 917-301-0430
E-mail: djc@djcinvestigativegroup.com
www.djcinvestigativegroup.com
entire matter with the heads of the different centers. However,
possibilities had now been exhausted.”
Jan did not refuse them. He was guided by his Catholic faith
and his moral conscience. Also, by the spring of 1942, to refuse
to help the resistance was its own kind of danger. Those who
collaborated with the Germans were already facing justice in
secret Polish courts. What Jan could do was to use his contacts
to come to an understanding with institutions across Poland for
the transfer of Jewish “orphans.”
The Umschlagplatz
Gross Aktion Warsaw had begun. July 22, 1942 was the first
day of the mass deportations. The head of the Judenrat, Adam
Czerniakow, was told that he must provide 6,000 Jews a day. By
the second day, the Judenrat leader was given a new order for
10,000 people. Knowing that this meant turning over infants
and children, Czerniakow finally had a crisis of conscience and
committed suicide by swallowing cyanide in his office. The Ger-
mans just appointed someone else in his place. There were few
volunteers for “resettlement,” and the Jewish police viciously
rounded up whole neighborhoods and marched them to the
gathering place from which the trains left to the death camp of
Treblinka. This square was called the Umschlagplatz.
The Germans wanted to keep up the illusion that this was
resettlement of unproductive elements, not mass murder. This
gave Irena an opening to save some Jews. Medical care and dis-
42 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
operations extracting Jewish children from the ghetto and plac-
ing them into one or another of the Section’s care centers, on
the basis of falsified records and interviews, after arranging the
DAVID J. COHEN ©WWW One hero of the story is Nachum Remba.
He was not a doctor but a 32-year-old clerk in
Private Investigator the Judenrat offices. He was also a member of the
Jewish resistance. Nachum had a crazy idea. He
DJC Investigative Group and Ala pretended that they had permission to
Licensed And Bonded - NY • Licensed - Maryland set up a medical clinic. Nachum Remba
convinced the Germans that he was the chief
Specializing in Civil and doctor in the ghetto and Ala was the chief nurse.
Criminal Investigations
Cell Phone: 917-301-0430
E-mail: djc@djcinvestigativegroup.com
www.djcinvestigativegroup.com
entire matter with the heads of the different centers. However,
possibilities had now been exhausted.”
Jan did not refuse them. He was guided by his Catholic faith
and his moral conscience. Also, by the spring of 1942, to refuse
to help the resistance was its own kind of danger. Those who
collaborated with the Germans were already facing justice in
secret Polish courts. What Jan could do was to use his contacts
to come to an understanding with institutions across Poland for
the transfer of Jewish “orphans.”
The Umschlagplatz
Gross Aktion Warsaw had begun. July 22, 1942 was the first
day of the mass deportations. The head of the Judenrat, Adam
Czerniakow, was told that he must provide 6,000 Jews a day. By
the second day, the Judenrat leader was given a new order for
10,000 people. Knowing that this meant turning over infants
and children, Czerniakow finally had a crisis of conscience and
committed suicide by swallowing cyanide in his office. The Ger-
mans just appointed someone else in his place. There were few
volunteers for “resettlement,” and the Jewish police viciously
rounded up whole neighborhoods and marched them to the
gathering place from which the trains left to the death camp of
Treblinka. This square was called the Umschlagplatz.
The Germans wanted to keep up the illusion that this was
resettlement of unproductive elements, not mass murder. This
gave Irena an opening to save some Jews. Medical care and dis-
42 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
