Michael Meitek Werner

Testimony of Michael Meitek Werner, born in Lwow, Poland in 1937, regarding his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in hiding in Warsaw, in the south of Poland, and in Switzerland His parents are merchants; his father is a soccer referee; contacts with Poles; German occupation; Lwow Ghetto life; his mother escapes to Warsaw with the family's children; help from the Polish underground; his mother's activities in the underground; his mother's absence; detention of his aunt in the Pawiak prison; escape to Malinowka; his baby sister is entrusted to a non-Jewish family; help from the town's priest in the hiding of the witness' sister; deportation of his father, who is using a false identity, to a labor camp; his father is smuggled from the camp; illegally crossing the border into Switzerland; reunion after the war; his mother and the children join the children's home in Zakopane administered by Lena Kichler; his family makes aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946.