Ms. Bernadette Dukas
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Consists of a copy of"My life during the wa" written in Polish by Bernadette Dukas (born Bronislawa Alland) from December 1945 to March 1947. The memoir was translated into English in 1989 by Dukas' brother, George Alland. The memoir describes Dukas' life in Warsaw, Poland, at the beginning of World War II, her life in hiding under an assumed identity, her experiences of forced labor in an airplane engine factory at Braunschweig, her liberation in April 1945, and her experiences of antisemitism in Poland after the Holocaust.
My life during the war