One of the people who passed through the Umschlagplatz was Zygmunt Nissenbaum (1926–2001), founder of the Nissenbaum Family Foundation. In his book published in 1988, “. In his book published in 1988, “Rescuing the Traces of Jewish Culture in Poland – Alive and Dead”, he describes the deportation of his family from the Umschlagplatz in the following words: