Peretz Hochman

Peretz Hochman was a child in the Warsaw ghetto. As the economic situation in the ghetto worsened, he disguised himself as a Polish boy and made a living by singing in the streets and selling cigarettes and newspapers on Three Crosses Square. Peretz, along with a group of Jewish children, slept in cemeteries and in abandoned houses in the city. In 1944, at the age of 17, he took part in the Polish uprising and received medals of valor. After the liberation, he joined the Bricha movement, migrating from Warsaw to Katowice and thence via Czechoslovakia to France.