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Testimony of Pnina (Ostrovsky) Huberman, born in 1933 in Ludwipol, Poland, about her experiences in the Ludwipol ghetto and in the forest

Testimony
Testimony of Pnina (Ostrovsky) Huberman, born in 1933 in Ludwipol, Poland, about her experiences in the Ludwipol ghetto and in the forest nearby Information about the family of four; childhood in Ludwipol before the war in the 1930s; German occupation ensues and men are taken away; life in the Ludwipol ghetto, which is tenanted by women and children only; after eight months in the ghetto, witness is sent into the forest by her mother; mother murdered; witness flees to the forest; life in the forest with smugglers from Ludwipol; receives news from the front via partisans; war ends; reunited with father and brothers, who had worked for a non-Jew during the war; rehabilitation afater the war; father remarries; family moves to Germany; moves to the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp; Ben-Gurion and Chaim Herzog visit; immigration to Israel in 1948 with Youth Aliyah under auspices of the Working and Learning Youth movement; documentation of names of family members who perished in the Holocaust.
item Id
13348714
First Name
Perl
Pnina
Last Name
Huberman
Maiden Name
Ostrovsky
Date of Birth
24/12/1933
Place of Birth
Ludwipol, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
12/09/2018
Date of Creation - latest
12/09/2018
Name of Submitter
הוברמן אוסטרובסקי פנינה פרל
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video