Testimony of Yocheved Schwartzman, born in Alexsandria, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Chelm, Sosnowica, Hungary and other places

Testimony of Yocheved Schwartzman, born in Alexsandria, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Chelm, Sosnowica, Hungary and other places 

ZEZNANIA SZWARCMAN JOCHEWET Z LUBLINA URODZONEJ W ALEKSANDRJI NA WOLYNIU 

Testimony of Yocheved Schwartzman, born in Alexsandria, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Chelm, Sosnowica, Hungary and other places 

ZEZNANIA SZWARCMAN JOCHEWET Z LUBLINA URODZONEJ W ALEKSANDRJI NA WOLYNIU 

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Testimony of Yocheved Schwartzman, born in Alexsandria, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, Chelm, Sosnowica, Hungary and other places Life before the war including work in kibbutz aliya training. Escape of the kibbutz members East; German occupation of Lublin, September 1939; welcome of the Germans by the Polish locals; capture of hostages; registration of the Jews from age 16 to 60; deportation of the Jews to camps on the eastern border; deportation of the Jews from Kalisz; Loda and Lublin; arrival of refugees from Germany and Austria to Lublin, 1940; release of Jewish POWs; deportation of the POWs to a labor camp on Lipowa St.; camp conditions; escape attempts; abuse; escape to Chelm; arrests; deportation to labor camps; unsuccessful attempt to illegally cross the border to Soviet Occupied territory; return to Lublin; establishment of the Lublin Ghetto, 1941; deportation of thousands of Jews to outlying cities; deportation to Sosnowica; escape from the camp to Lublin; escape to Tarnow; escape to Nowy Sacz; unsucessful attempt to cross the Hungarian border; work in Slovakia with members of Zionist youth movements; deportations, 1942; escape to Hungary; arrest and transfer to a refugee camp. The testimony was recorded during the war.