The testimony of Zehava Zalta [Langer] Blank, born in Dolhobyczow, Poland, 1930, about her family's deportation to the eastern Soviet Union.

The testimony of Zehava Zalta [Langer] Blank, born in Dolhobyczow, Poland, 1930, about her family's deportation to the eastern Soviet Union. Her childhood in an ultra-Orthodox Zionist family; her father a shochet, a ritual slaughterer; a law is enacted to prohibit ritual slaughter; the slaughter continues despite the ban; two lawsuits filed against the father due to continued slaughter; the outbreak of war, 1939; the family escapes to the father's acquaintances in Sokol; life there for two weeks; the family is deported to the eastern Soviet Union, May 1940; arrival in Ivdel District; life there for several months; the family escapes to Kamenka; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; the family escapes to Uzbekistan, December 1941; her father dies and is buried in the Jewish cemetery; her sister dies, Summer 1942; her mother's illness and death in the hospital; she moves with another sister to an orphanage; her illness and her sister’s illness; her sister’s death and her life alone; the orphanage is shut, she moves to the home of family friends in Katta Kurgan; her move to live with another family; the war ends; her return to Poland; her host family moves to Lublin, 1946; her illegal emigration to Israel by ship, 1947; her deportation to Cyprus and then aliya to Israel, 1947; absorption.