Testimony of Sara Shura Hinda (Appelstein) Ehrmann, born in 1937 in Siedliszcze, Poland, about her experiences in the Siedliszcze and Włodawa ghettos, with the partisans, in hiding, etc.

Testimony of Sara Shura Hinda (Appelstein) Ehrmann, born in 1937 in Siedliszcze, Poland, about her experiences in the Siedliszcze and Włodawa ghettos, with the partisans, in hiding, etc. Life before the war; faint memories of early childhood; father: merchant; war breaks out; parents' home becomes a German headquarters; deportation to the ghetto; escaping to sister's house in a nearby town; escaping to the Włodawa ghetto; child suffocated by parents due to his crying; observing heaps of corpses; finding a hideout in a loft during one of the Aktionen; escaping to the home of a Polish estate owner; grandfather dies; father and brother join partisans in the forest; life in an underground bunker; capture along with brother by Germans while attempting to return to one of the villages; escaping from the Germans and returning to Włodawa; father joins; family escapes into the forests and thence to Grabniak; finds a hideout with the Labrica family, local inhabitants; escapes back to Wlodawa; father murdered; apparently by a gang; moving to Lublin; witness placed in an orphanage in Lodz; life in Pougues-les-Eaux; immigrates to Israel in 1948; adjusts to life in Israel.