15 Facts About Calel Perechodnik

Calel Perechodnik earned a degree in agronomy at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and a master's degree at a university in Toulouse, France.

Calel Perechodnik constantly blamed himself for the death of his wife and daughter.

Calel Perechodnik later wrote that she could easily pass for a Pole if she dyed her hair.

Calel Perechodnik failed to obtain the kennkarte for his wife in time, partly due to his laziness and partly due to his "lack of trust in such things".

Calel Perechodnik spent 105 days in hiding with his mother and other Jews in the apartment of a Polish woman risking her own life to save them.

Calel Perechodnik then joined the Polish Underground; it was during this time that he contracted typhus.

Calel Perechodnik participated in the uprising as part of the Chrobry II Battalion.

Calel Perechodnik wrote his memoir between 7 May and 19 August 1943 in Warsaw, during his stay at the home of his Polish rescuer.

Calel Perechodnik expresses his outrage at the refusal by some Orthodox Jews to send their children to Polish orphanages which would have saved them from the Holocaust.

Calel Perechodnik expressed his anguish and astonishment at the savagery of war.

Calel Perechodnik's information is considered by various researchers and experts on the Holocaust to be remarkably accurate, and according to these researchers, the notes show proof that the Jews at that time knew what was happening.

Shortly before Calel Perechodnik died in 1944, he entrusted his manuscript to a Polish friend.

Calel Perechodnik became very bitter toward the Jews and frequently criticised them, even blaming them for bringing these events on themselves because of their insistence on cultural and religious isolation.

Calel Perechodnik was sarcastic about others, as well as self-deprecating about his own Jewishness.

Calel Perechodnik wrote the following about the role of ethnic Poles during the Holocaust:.