Testimony of Tzipora Feiga (Krieger) Porat, born in Łaszczów, Poland, in 1927, regarding her experiences in Łaszczów, Rava Russkaya, Altayskiy Kray, Guryevsk, and more

Testimony of Tzipora Feiga (Krieger) Porat, born in Łaszczów, Poland, in 1927, regarding her experiences in Łaszczów, Rava Russkaya, Altayskiy Kray, Guryevsk, and more From a religious family owning a grocery in Łaszczów; education in a heder and in Polish schools; outbreak of war; burning of the home and most of the city during fighting between the Germans and the Poles; escape and crossing the border to the Soviet Union; prohibition against staying as refugees in the border area; wandering; escape to Rava Russkaya; life in a densely populated place with many refugees; deportation to Siberia in summer 1940; arrival in Altayskiy Kray after six weeks; life in the overcrowded camp; work collecting and cutting trees; lack of food; liberation in early 1942; escape to Guryevsk; improvement in living conditions; living there until the end of the war; return to Western Poland; illegal border crossing to Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Italy; immigration to Eretz Israel in May 1947; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Israel in 1948.