Audio testimony of Rachel (Mannheim) Bader, regarding the experiences of her family in Niżankowice, escape to the forests, her time in a hiding place in Towarnia and liberation

Audio testimony of Rachel (Mannheim) Bader, regarding the experiences of her family in Niżankowice, escape to the forests, her time in a hiding place in Towarnia and liberation - Audio testimony of Rachel (Mannheim) Bader, born in Niżankowice, Poland, 1918, regarding the experiences of her family during the Holocaust: - Rachel Mannheim's parents were Todres and Hinda Mannheim; they owned a convenience store; information regarding Rachel's siblings; death of her father, Todres, in 1936; occupation of Niżankowice by the Germans, in 1939; murder of some of the Jews of Niżankowice, including relatives of Rachel; concentration of Niżankowice Jews, whose fate is unknown, in the city square; deportation of Rachel, her sister Dora and her brother Moshe to the Niżankowice Ghetto, actually one street into which the Jews who remained in the city were concentrated in order to provide forced labor for the city; murder of the Jews who remained in Niżankowice, including her brother Moshe; hiding of Rachel and Dora by a Polish woman who knew their family; arrest of Rachel and Dora by the Germans during their escape from the area (their release by a miracle before they were murdered after they convinced one of the German guards [not to murder them]); escape to the forests; hiding of Rachel and Dora in a hiding place in the home of a Polish woman in the village of Towarnia near Felsztyn in the Sambor District; arrival of the Gestapo at the home of the Polish woman, who managed to persuade the Gestapo that there was no one in her house; leaving of the home of the Polish woman; meeting Red Army soldiers in the forests in the area; move of Rachel and Dora to Przemyśl; assistance from Red Army soldiers; return of Rachel and Dora to Niżankowice. Notes from Benjamin Herspenist [Harfenist ?] and Sara Israel, who submitted the material: Rachel (Mannheim) Bader was born in 1918; her parents were Todres and Hinda Mannheim; Rachel had a sister named Dora, who was born in 1920, and she had five brothers; all the members of her family perished in the Holocaust with the exception of Rachel and Dora; the family lived in Niżankowice (Poland); during the war, they were deported to a temporary ghetto. During the first "Aktion", all the members of her family were taken, except for Rachel and Dora who escaped to the forests and lived with the partisans. Afterwards they were hidden by a Polish woman. Towards the end of the war, they were captured, but they bribed the guard with jewelry and he released them. At the end of the war, they returned to the city of their birth and discovered that none of their family members had survived. In 1950, Rachel and Dora and their husbands made aliya to Israel. In the late 1950s, Rachel and her husband emigrated to the United States; Dora and her husband, the parents of Benjamin and Sara, the submitters of the material, remained in Israel.