Aleksander Weissberg podczas okupacji niemieckiej w Warszawie
Aleksander Weissberg podczas okupacji niemieckiej w Warszawie

Summary/Abstract: Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski (1901 -1964), an Austrian physicist and businessman, author of the book Die grosse Tschistka (1951), lived in the occupied Poland during World War II. The article focuses on the years 1943 – 1945 spent by Weissberg predominantly in Warsaw. It shows the atypical history of a German-speaking Jew saved by his non-Jewish milieu and his own acumen. The circumstances of his hiding,of the help he received, of how he gained money through corruption, of his arrest and escape from the work camp in Kawęczyn were reconstructed on the basis of letters, interviews, written reminiscences, reports of the underground intelligence and other documents. In that way we obtained a very detailed glimpse at of life in war-time Warsaw.

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