Testimony of Sonia Sara Gurfein Burger, born Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding deportation to the Oszmiana and Molodeczno Ghettos and to Stutthof camp

Testimony of Sonia Sara Gurfein Burger, born Vilna, Poland, 1927, regarding deportation to the Oszmiana and Molodeczno Ghettos and to Stutthof camp Only daughter of a traditional family; livelihood of her father from trading in animal organs; move of her family to Oszmiana when she was seven years old; studying at a Polish school; activity in Hashomer Hatzair; outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation of Oszmiana; studies in Russian ; invasion of the Soviet Union by the Wehrmacht in 1941; arrest of her father with other Jewish men and their murder; continuing to live at home in the ghetto with her mother; livelihood from the sale of valuables and clothing with the help of their former maid; deportation to the Molodeczno Ghetto; released from forced labor thanks to her drawing skills; drawing greeting cards for the Germans; receiving benefits; transfer with her mother to Stutthof; separation from her mother; life in the camp for one or two weeks; transfer to northern Germany; transfer to forced labor in clearing rubble; liberation; arrival in Bialystok; wanderings and arrival in Italy; aliya to Israel in 1948 during the War of Independence; recruited into the police; absorption.