I really could use help.
This is the best link I have, beyond my own first-hand documents.
All I'm really looking for is to find out...what it printed.
https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/story-rescue-gersin-family
My grandfather helped run an underground printing press in Warsaw during World War Two. And hid two Jewish children.
Available facts:
his Yad Vashem documentation with some of their testimony
thank you letters from the kids as adults. It's mentioned a printing press was moved under the cover of a baby carriage, along a bridge near a river. There couldn't be that many in Warsaw
I know polish resistance propaganda in Warsaw was published in roughly 13 printing sites. This may be one of them.
Anyone feel like helping? Spread to any subreddits you like. This would make a great Chanukah gift for my mom.
Edit: oh also it would be great to even know where to turn to in general
Oh sorry, here is a copy and paste of the website; it appears to be down on my end Zygmunt is (was) my grandfather.
Story of Rescue - The Gersin Family
Zygmunt Gersin was an engineer and a resident of Warsaw. Warsaw, Ossowska Street, Praga district. During the war he was involved in underground activities; for some time his apartment housed an underground printing press. In 1942 he took to the Jewish children Pavel Kraus and Rutka (Ruth) Feldman.
Rutka was born in Brno, where she lived with her parents Armin (1900-1942?) And Herta (née Geldkop) (1909-1942?). Both died in Poland, but the exact circumstances are unknown to Ruth. Pavel was born in Trebivlice in Czechoslovakia, where he lived with his parents: Victor (1898-1942) and Olga Kraus née Stern (1910-1944). In 1941 the family was deported to the ghetto in Terezin (Ger. Theresienstadt), and then to the Warsaw ghetto. According to the testimony of Pavel's cousin Nina Weil, his parents died in Warsaw in April 1942.
Pavel, currently known under the name Paul Porgess, remembers little from that period. His only memories concern a "camp" in Warsaw, where he lived in wooden barracks. When he fell ill, he was removed from the barrache. He remembers being hidden on a truck and brought to Gersin's apartment.
Pavel and Rutka stayed in hiding in Gersin's small two-room apartment until 1944. Gersin taught the children mathematics. Pavel passed the time reading books, with which the apartment was well supplied. Over time he forgot his native Czech.
When Gersin was sent to forced labor in Germany in 1943 or 1944, the children were left in the care of his sister Wanda Chrzanowska, who lived in the same building. Rutka moved in with her, while Pavel, whose appearance can easily reveal his Jewish origin, the empty apartment, where he was brought food.
In the summer of 1944, under Russian bombardment, they all hid in the basement. They returned to Wanda's apartment after the liberation of left-bank Warsaw in September 1944.
In 1945 Pavel was taken to a Jewish orphanage in Krakow. "Then I looked at this Polish family who rescued me. They were not Jews, and I was not even Polish, "he wrote in his testimony in 1981.
In the spring of 1946 Pavel and Ruth went to Prague. Ruth made her way to her hometown of Brno, where she found out of her loved ones survived the war. She was adopted by a Jewish family and lived with them for three years. At the age of 14 she moved to Israel and settled in the Sde Nehemia kibbutz. She studied pedagogy and worked as a teacher, got married and had four children. She lost contact with the Gersin family. It was only in 1978 that she wrote to Gersin's wife saying she never forgot Zygmunt's heroic attitude.
Pavel was initially in the custody of his uncle, Dr. Karel Stern in Benešov, who survived the war with his sons Jiri and Petr. Pavel's cousin Nina Weil also survived the war, living in an orphanage in Prague.
In 1946 Pavel was sent with a group of Jewish children to England, where he lived, living in an orphanage and with various foster families. He was adopted by Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia: Leo (d. 1973), metallurgist, and Trude Porgess (dated 1953), and a lawyer who had ties with the Czechoslovak Government in exile during the war.
In England, under the name Paul, he earned his doctorate in the Technical University of Manchester. He started a family with three children: Claire, Jane and Michael.
For several years he exchanged letters with Wanda Chrzanowska, from whom he found out that Gersin returned to Poland from forced labor.
Later on, Zygmunt went to Canada. There he married Maria, who died during the war. At her request, the Red Cross reached Paul.
In 1981, the Yad Vashem Institute decided to award Zygmunt Gersin and his sister Wanda Chrzanowska the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
Have you had a response to your post? I think you are asking if anyone knows what was printed? I cannot answer this as I don't know. I am however related to one of the rescued children and hope that you find your answer.