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Testimony of Ada Finkelshtein Lazarovitz, born in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna and Czestochowa camps

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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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12305457
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Ada
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Lazarovitz
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Finkelshtein
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1931
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Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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04/02/2016
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04/02/2016
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לזרוביץ עדה
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YES
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ISRAEL
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