Testimony of Miriam Vaksler, nee Melamed, born in 1932 in Warszawa, Poland, regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, the hotel Polski and the Bergen Belsen camp.

Testimony of Miriam Vaksler,nee Melamed,born in 1932 in Warszawa,Poland,regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, the hotel Polski and the Bergen Belsen camp. Family background; outbreak of war,1939; Miriam's expulsion from school; family's deportation to ghetto; survival; hiding in attic during "Aktions"; her escape from ghetto with help of workers; hiding with Christian family; arrest at Hotel Polski; deportation to Bergen belsen,1943; survival; death march,1945; liberation by American army during march; medical treatment in Magdebourg; moving to Brussels; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement; aliya to Israel,1947; exile by the British to Cyprus; aliya to Israel,1948; absorption and rehabilitation in kibbutz Shoval.