Henryka Lazawart

“Living in the ghetto, Jews lived on rations. You were given half a loaf of bread for 5 people …I remember we were all sitting together and when my Dad divided this half loaf of bread among 5 people, cutting pieces of bread so that everyone would have more or less the same portion, my mother always took a part of her bread and gave it to me….”I’m not hungry” she used to say and gave it to me. This I will always remember..."

~Eliezar (Henryka's son)

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Henryka was a young Jewish mother living in Poland. She was sent to a Polish Ghetto with her family and later died in Treblinka Concentration Camp. Her poem, "The Little Smuggler" was written in honor of her children who often had to try to get food to help their family survive. Many children, like Henryka's, helped their families survive by Smuggling Food to them...many of the children who were caught were killed. Life in the ghettos was dangerous, but families sacrificed for each other in order to help one another survive.

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