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On the day of Joanna Podgórska's death, we want to honor her memory by publishing this interview. She told us about her fate a year ago in a conversation with Masza Makarowa from our Education Department. Before the war, she lived with her parents in a tenement house on Bagatela Street in Warsaw, from where, during the German occupation, at the age of four, she was deported to the ghetto with them and her grandparents. Her father, Jerzy Neuding, died in the spring of 1942 after being arrested by the Germans, and in July of the same year, Joanna Podgórska left the ghetto with her mother, where she was hidden with friends' family and then in a sanatorium in Zagórze. During the uprising, she and her mother were sent to Pruszków, then to the Stutthof camp and to a labor camp near Grudziądz. They returned to Warsaw in April 1945. After the war, Joanna graduated from a library high school and worked in various libraries in Warsaw until the end of her professional life. We encourage you to listen to her moving memories from childhood. May the memory of her be a blessing.