Testimony of Bela (Shtilman) Raikhman, born in Polonnoye, Ukraine, 1932, regarding her experiences in Polonnoye, Dzhambul, Alma Ata and other places

Testimony of Bela (Shtilman) Raikhman, born in Polonnoye, Ukraine, 1932, regarding her experiences in Polonnoye, Dzhambul, Alma Ata and other places Daughter of a well-to-do Jewish family in Polonnoye; home language Yiddish; Yiddish songs; synagogue attendance; Outbreak of the war; air-raids; hiding in a cellar; escape from the city by train; hiding in the fields for a few days; train travel; constant hunger; arriving in Dzhambul; life there for about a year; her father's move to Alma Ata for work; receiving a letter from a neighbor of her father's family in Kiev with information about her grandmother's murder; receiving information about the murder of 17 relatives in Babyn Yar; Return to Ukraine after the war; her father's refusal to stay in Ukraine; family's move to Kishinev; aliya to Israel, 1998.