Rut Tzimerman

Testimony of Ruth (Simon) Zimmerman, born in Königsberg, Germany in 1930, regarding her experiences in Germany, escape to China and deportation to the Shanghai Ghetto Her childhood in Sondershausen; life under Nazi rule in 1933; imposition of restrictions and bans; move to Hamburg in 1938; "Kristallnacht" events in 1938; detention of her father and his deportation to Sachsenhausen camp; tickets to travel by ship to Shanghai are purchased for her entire family in 1939; escape to Trieste; escape to Shanghai via Hong Kong; life under the Japanese occupation; life as refugees; deportation to the Shanghai Ghetto in 1943; Shanghai Ghetto life; air-raids; studies at the Jewish school; liberation in 1945; emigration to Boston in 1949; move to New York in 1950; aliya to Israel in 1951; absorption.