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Geciarze Categories: Phenomena
Updated: 29-01-2026 Added: 24-04-2025
A personal noun derived from the Polish word „getto”. This word frequently appears in memoirs Poles wrote to describe a person who smuggled (see Szmugiel) goods across the Łódź Ghetto border. Geciarzami [maybe an explanation of this form of the word] were mostly boys who could slip under the ghetto fence (see Druty). The vast majority of geciarze [maybe an explanation of this form of the word] were recruited by people who had lived in or near the area where the ghetto was later established. Adwokacka Street, located on the northwestern border of the ghetto, was considered a smuggler's haven.
Adam Sitarek