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File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of oral history interview with Irena Bakowska conducted by Charles Roland in Kingston, Ontario on February 1st, 1983.
Topics cover Irena’s early life, education and family in Warsaw prior to the Second World War, the bombing of Warsaw and the persecution of Warsaw Jews before their imprisonment in the ghetto and thereafter, experience of receiving Lyceum education in an underground school in Warsaw, learning conditions and social life in the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school, life and living conditions in the Warsaw ghetto, evacuation from the Warsaw ghetto, life in hiding in Zakrzowek in 1942, experience in the labour camp in Germany in 1943, discussions about the dignity of the suffering Jews and reflections on the war.