Testimony of Aryeh Niviadomski, born in Przasnycz, Poland, 1930, on his escape to the eastern part of the Soviet Union

Testimony of Aryeh Niviadomski, born in Przasnycz, Poland, 1930, on his escape to the eastern part of the Soviet Union Family background; attends a Jewish school; outbreak of war on 01 September 1939; his father and brother stay at home; escape with his mother and brother to Makow Mazowiecki; escape with his mother and brother to Bialystok, meeting with his other siblings, uncles, and grandmother; stay in Bialystok for several months; conscription of his father in early 1942 and his failure to return from the war; wandering of his family across Ukraine; arrival in the Urals; fall of his mother into a coal pit in March 1943 and subsequent death; stay in the orphanage of Wanda Waslawska until the end of the war; return to Szczyń in Poland in July 1945; transfer to Borochow's kibbutz in Lodz; move to Lyon; attempt at aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship "HaMa’apil HaAlmoni" in 1947; arrival at the Haifa coast; deportation to Famagusta, Cyprus; aliya to Israel; absorption and life since then.