Testimony of Dora (Steifman) Zeler, born in Wólka Lubielska, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Wólka Lubielska, the Maków Mazowiecki Ghetto, and in the area

Testimony of Dora (Steifman) Zeler, born in Wólka Lubielska, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Wólka Lubielska, the Maków Mazowiecki Ghetto, and in the area Family life in Wólka Lubielska before the war; antisemitism; German occupation, September 1939; wearing the yellow badge; registration of Jews; expulsion from her home; confiscation of property; praying in secret; deportation to the open ghetto; transfer of her parents to forced labor; deportation to the Maków Mazowiecki Ghetto; life in the ghetto; activities of the Judenrat and the Jewish police; her father's deportation to forced labor in Ciechanów; extensive mortality from typhus; her illness; hunger; lack of water; her mother's smuggling in food; public hangings in the ghetto; suicides; being smuggled out of the ghetto before its liquidation, November 1942; life in a farmer's house in the area; working as a cowherd; being beaten; antisemitism; arrival to the place of her mother and younger sister; flight to the forest; changing hiding places in the forest; separation from her mother and sister; life in a village under a false Polish identity; attending church; her mother and sister's hiding on the outskirts of the village; her mother and sister's capture and murder by Poles; being searched for; flight to another village; living with a Polish couple while hiding her Jewish identity; liberation by the Red Army; Life under a false identity; illegal border crossings; [unsuccessful attempt at] illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; deportation to Cyprus; return aliya to Eretz Israel after about half a year; absorption.