The second trip I took for guns was uneventful; the third trip was something else again. Later, when the ghetto in Łuków was being liquidated in 1943, Eta Wrobel declined an offer of assistance extended to her by Balbina Synalewicz, a Polish acquaintance (Ibid., 75).
A few days later, one of the women who sometimes let me stay at her house brought me a birth certificate froma Polish girl who had died. She asked me to leave and live with her as a Christian, and that her priest would help me. Again, I had to say no—I didn’t want to leave my Tateh [i.e., dad] and brothers. The assistance provided to a number of Jews by the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (of Pleszew), who worked as nurses at the Holy Trinity Hospital (Szpital Świętej Trójcy) located near the ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, is described by Charles Kotkowsky, a survivor from that town, in his book, Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor (Montreal: Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies, 2000).
Five women escaped from the synagogue and succeeded to climb the fence into the nearby hospital Swietej Trojcy [Szpital Świętej Trójcy]. The nuns of that hospital, seeing the distraught five women, had pity on them and let them in.
