Biography Eleonora Witońska

This journal contains deepening material of the exhibition at the memorial site Bullenhuser Damm. Eleonora Witónska was one of twenty children, who were murdered on 20th April 1945 at Bullenhuser Damm. Eleonora Wito´ska was born on 16 September 1939. Her family nickname was Lenka. On 9 September 1939, one week before she was born, German troops had occupied the city of Radom. The SS and the German police set up their headquarters in the street where the Wito´ski family lived. In April 1941, the family, like all Jewish inhabitants of the city, was forced to move into one of the two ghettos.