Testimony of Nechama Gershonovich Volk, born in Slawatycze, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Slawatycze, Domachevo, Kosów Poleski, Łódź and Salzburg

Testimony of Nechama Gershonovich Volk, born in Slawatycze, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Slawatycze, Domachevo, Kosów Poleski, Łódź and Salzburg Secular family in Slawatycze in good financial condition; community life; national school; good relations with the Gentiles. Entry of the Red Army for a few days, 1939; family hiding at a farm owner; escape to the Soviet side, to her father's family in Domachevo; deportation to the east; German occupation, July 1941; transfer to the Kosów Poleski ghetto, summer of 1942; forced labor; reports of the killing of her sister in a German bombing of Grodno; the great aktion in the Ghetto, July 1942; hiding and rescuing of the family members; liberation by Soviet partisans, August 1942; escape to the woods with her mother, brother and sister; information about the murder of her father by German soldiers; a camp of Soviet partisans; her brother joining the "Group 51" of Jewish partisans; bombing by Germans. Liberation by the Red Army, 1944; joining Hashomer Hatzair with her sister in Łódź; smuggling across the border into Austria to a DP camp in Salzburg; aliya to Israel, 1949.