If Kasia were alive, do you think she would have accompanied Adam to the ghetto? Would they have been able to escape before the war?

If Kasia were alive, do you think she would have accompanied Adam to the ghetto? Would they have been able to escape before the war?

That’s a tough one. We can only assume that Kasia loved Adam as much as he loved her. I think she would have gone with him, but she also may have believed that she could do more to change the situation from the outside.

I choose to believe that she would have persuaded him to move away before the residents were required to go to the ghetto.

If Kasia was still alive I don't believe she would have needed to make a decision about joining Adam in the ghetto because they would have left Warsaw before the ghetto was sealed off. Adam notes that if Kasia had lived,she would have moved both of them to England. He says she was more sophisticated than he and "could read the writing on the wall" and gotten them to London where they would have joined the Home Army and worked for Polish liberation on the side of the Allies. I believe the Polish people just kept thinking the bad times would not last. By the time the trains were taking Jews to gas chambers, it was too late for most of them to escape.

I think kasia could also have had her father’s influence to be able to leave but perhaps he would have persuaded her to stay, believing his influence would protect them.

That is a tough question. Kasia liked nice things. While she loved Adam, she loved a blond blue-eyed man who did not look Jewish and who was not religious. Before meeting Adam, she had planned to go to London, but she stayed because he didn't want to leave. At the time she stayed, her rich father was still supporting them and there were no significant issues.

Of course, we want to believe she loved him enough to have gone to the ghetto with him, but we don't really know.

I believe that if Kasia were alive her father would have found a way to move both his beloved daughter and Adam to England where they would have lived out the way providing help in relative comfort and safety.

I think Kasia would have made Adam leave before the war broke out, maybe joining his mother and brother in Palestine, or maybe following their dream to London. Even Adam seemed to believe that she would have made that decision for them were she still alive.

I think Kasia's father had a real hold on his daughter, and she liked the lifestyle his support could give them. If Adam did not leave in time, I think she might have persuaded her father to hide him, maybe in the father's house. Adam could have left when his mother and bother did. He did not. Why?? Was he sure he was going to be ok because he didn't look Jewish? Was it because he thought Kasia's father could protect them? Maybe Adam himself liked the support they were getting. A school teacher does not make much money. Could be many reasons.

That's a fascinating question, but I don't believe we know enough about Kasia to answer it definitively. She and Adam lived a comfortable life, and seemed to be in love, but she was not Jewish, was the daughter of a wealthy and powerful man, and it is hard to imagine her voluntarily going to live in the ghetto with Adam. I think it is more likely that they would have escaped, using her father's connections.

They may have left before the war. I doubt very much that Kasia would have, or could have, accompanied Adam to the ghetto.

I believe if Kasia were alive, they would have escaped the ghetto by going to England or somewhere else that was safe. I doubt she would have accompanied him to the ghetto unless there was absolutely no other choice.

A tough question. I get the feeling that Kasia was the strong one in the marriage. She went against the wishes of all her family to marry this man she loved. Even knowing what it would do to her reputation. I think she could have easily convinced Adam to leave and go to England to begin their new life. But I also believe that if the Nazi movement had been quicker and they did not have time to plan their move, she would have gone to the ghetto with Adam, no matter what her father promised. I believed she truly loved Adam and would have stayed with him.

Her father would have made sure they went to England well before the Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off. Protection and adoration of his daughter was such a key component to his life. Even if they couldn't leave, I am confident that Adam would have been provided papers changing his identity to a Gentile. He could then have lived outside of Warsaw with Kasia.

I think Adam would have done everything possible to save her from the ghetto, including leaving Poland. Failing that, I believe she would have accompanied him, especially since they believed it was short term and had no idea how long and how bad the experience would be.