ghetto policeman: the story of Dr Henry Bierzynski Bernard
TitleThe ghetto policeman: the story of Dr Henry Bierzynski Bernard
Author
Call number940.5318092/0967
Object number10942
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
PublisherSydney Jewish Museum
Year of publication
2021
Physical descriptionvi,260p.
MaterialBook
Series titleSydney Jewish Museum Community Stories
ISBN9780648783985
Description
Memoir of Henry Bernard who was born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland and at the age of 20 became a ghetto policeman in the Tomaszow ghetto. He was later sent to the Blizyn labor camp near Radom from where he made a failed attempt to escape. In mid-1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and from there to Kaufering, a sub-camp of Dachau and was liberated by the Americans on 27th April 1945. He eventually migrated to Australia