Testimony of Batia (Reis) Shai, born in 1925 in Rawa Ruska, Poland, about her experiences in the Rawa Ruska ghetto and under a false identity

Testimony of Batia (Reis) Shai, born in 1925 in Rawa Ruska, Poland, about her experiences in the Rawa Ruska ghetto and under a false identity Childhood in an Orthodox home; attends a Polish school and a Beth Jacob school at the same time; Germans enter; life in the Rawa Ruska ghetto; witness polishes boots for the Sonderdienstkommando; parents murdered; obtains false papers in the name of a Christian woman, Elinora Rogos; dyes her hair blonde; witness moved by her brother, for a large payment; to a non-Jew in Kraków; she works in his home; sent to a staging point in Kraków for forced labor; sets out as a Christian woman to Eisenach; works at a German officers' hotel; liberated by American forces; travels to Belgium by train; encounters American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee people who suspect her of being German; disproves suspicion by reciting from a Jewish prayer book; takes Zionist training in Belgium; immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1946; undergoes rehabilitation and adjusts to life in Eretz Israel.