Fleeing from the Hunter: Marian Domanski's Escape

Marian Domanski: Fleeing from the Hunter

Background

Marian Domanski lived in Otwock but since he was a Jew, he was forced

to live in a ghetto. At a young age Marian started to sell their household

items since his father died fighting for Poland. He would use the money he

made to buy food for him and his mother. After his mothers death, Marian

left the ghetto and he didn't plan on returning either.

Otwock

Ghetto

Marian's Experiences in Otwock Ghetto

• the ghetto-"to divide the Jewish section from the Polish, non-Jewish side", "wire fences that resembled those on, large animal traps with several openings."
• disease- "malnutrition and the deteriorating sanitarty conditions resulted in the outbreak and spreading of the illness, especially typhus."
• deaths- "hunger, combined with sickness, begin to decimate the Jewish population in Otwock."
• guarding and strictness-"with a warning that punishment would be meted out ruthlessly to any transgressors of these laws."
• life in the ghetto- "being in a closed-off area and cut off from the outside world created difficulties."

Timeline

Poland is invaded by the Germans

Domanski is notified of his fathers death

Jewish areas have now become closed off ghettos

June, 1941

Marian "celebrates his" bar mitzvah in the ghetto

May, 1942

Marian's mother dies from thyphus

June, 1970

Domanski,his wife, and daughter leave Poland for Canada

Acrostic Poem

Biographical Poem - Marian Domanski

Marian Domanski

Courageous, Jewish, Fearful, Determined

Running from the Nazis.

Who feels

Afraid of everyone,

And scared of Nazi control

For persecuting Jews.

Who likes

The kind farmers,

The work they provide

And the shelter, to protect him from Germans.

Who doesn't understand

Why the Germans say

Jews are filthy and worthless,

Why their are killed mindlessly and cruelly

And why they are kept away from society.

Who wonders

Why the Jewish have to wear a star

What to do to be accepted by people

And why Jews are discriminated against

So harshly.

Who doesn't like

The Nazi leader who despises the Jews

That he must wear the Star to make him inferior

or the diseases that took his mother.

Who thinks

Of escape

That he is no longer allowed to be with other non-Jews

That he no should longer live in the ghetto

anymore because he feels

confined and controlled.

Who wants

The end of the persecution

His mother and father to come back

and to escape from Germany's control

The world to accept him as Jew.

A survivor of the Holocaust

Marian Domanski.

Trivia Questions

1. Which ghetto did

Marian live in?

Answer

1. Marian lived in the Otwock ghetto

located in Poland.

Question 2

2. What disease killed his

mother?

Answer

2. His mother was killed by the

typhus disease which was common

in the ghettos.

Question 3

3. What was a common disease

in the Otwock ghetto?

Answer

3. Typhus was a very common

disease that killed many in the

Otwock ghetto.

Marian Domanski lived and escaped successfully. After

WWII he continued life, married, and had a daughter.

He revisited Poland and the haunting memories and saw

the farmers who contributed to saving his life. He saw some

of his family as well and some had even received awards

for their bravery by keeping and guarding Jews in their

own home. At the end of the book, Marian quotes "Whoever

saves one person saves and entire world."

In the end...

Tagxedo

One Word Presentation

September1, 1939

Fall, 1939

January, 1941

D aring

O twock

M isfortune

A voiding

N ervy

S uffering

K osher

I incessant