Testimony of Ada Finkelshtein Lazarovitz, born in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa camps
Testimony of Ada Finkelshtein Lazarovitz, born in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa camps
Testimony
Testimony of Ada Finkelshtein Lazarovitz, born in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa camps
Daughter of an orthodox family; life of the witness with her parents and sister in Skarzysko Kamienna; academic excellence; manifestations of antisemitism at school; German occupation; kidnapping of Jews for labor; her parents go into hiding; the neighbors watch over her little sister; deportation of the witness, instead of her parents, to a labor camp in Skarzysko Kamienna; being the only girl in the camp; labor in Camp B making bullets; the help of the older women; harassment by a Jewish foreman; help of a German manager; information regarding the liquidation of the ghetto; news regarding the murder of her parents; approach of the front; transfer to Czestochowa camp; liberation by the Red Army in January 1945; shooting by Poles at the Jews who were liberated; move to Lampertheim DP camp in 1946; joining united Noar Hechalutz; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1948; absorption at Kibbutz Ramat David.
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item Id
12305457
First Name
Ada
Last Name
Lazarovitz
Maiden Name
Finkelshtein
Date of Birth
1931
Place of Birth
Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives