Barbara Krajewska was born in Warsaw on Żelazna Street as Liliana Birnbaum. Her father, Jakub Birnbaum, was a chemist and co-owner of the Marcel cosmetics factory. Her mother, Sabina Birnbaum, was a teacher by education but mainly helped her husband in the factory. After the Warsaw ghetto was established, the family lived in a factory located on its territory. Barbara Krajewska was moved out of the ghetto in 1942 (her parents and older brother remained in the ghetto - their fate remains unknown) and throughout the occupation and after the war, until she got married, she lived with the Żbikowski family. She received Barbara Kotowska's birth certificate; she graduated from the Sisters of the Resurrection High School, then studied animal science; she worked first at Animeks, then at Rolimpex. She is currently retired. INTERVIEWEE’S NAME: Barbara Krajewska INTERVIEW BY: Jagna Kofta RECORDING: Józef Markiewicz DATE OF RECORDING: June 26, 2018 COPYRIGHT OF THE RECORDING: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews MOST IMPORTANT THREADS OF THE CONVERSATION: 00:00:13 - The interlocutor’s wartime fate. 00:02:57 - Few memories from childhood. 00:06:12 - A shelter in the basement of a factory in the ghetto. 00:07:30 - The housekeeper Józia; The history of family photos; 00:12:34 - Memories of the interlocutor’s cousin (Irena Birnbaum). 00:16:58 - The interlocutor’s parents. 00:19:12 - Being taken out of the ghetto; being taken away by her adoptive father; occupation in the Żbikowski house. English: 00:23:30 - Education after the war. 00:26:20 - Contacts with the sisters. 00:27:33 - The interlocutor is taken in by the Żbikowski family. 00:30:12 - Father Truszyński and receiving a false birth certificate. 00:33:15 - The first months after leaving the ghetto, waiting for her parents; unknown fate of her parents and brother. 00:35:30 - The area around the apartment in Marymont; transfer to the fire department after the capitulation of the uprising; meeting her adoptive father after the war. 00:37:50 - The significance of Jewish origin; the interlocutor's husband's problems in 1968, his awareness of his wife's origins. 00:42:13 - Conversations with friends about origins; television interview for Prof. Tomasz Strzembosz. 00:50:12 - Efforts to award the Żbikowskis the title of Righteous Among the Nations. Discover the POLIN Museum's oral history collection: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Subscribe to our channel: / @historiamowionapolin Watch the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews channels: POLIN (announcements and reports from events at the Museum): / mhzp2013 Virtual Shtetl (history and culture of Polish Jews): / wirtualneshtetl Polish Righteous (stories of help provided to Jews during the Holocaust): / polscysprawiedliwi Contact for interview sharing: [email protected] #PolinMuseum #SpokenHistory #WarsawGhetto #SurvivorStories #Ghetto #Warsaw #Holocaust #WorldWarII