Transcript of the testimony of Chysia (Bookspan) Cohen, born in Chelm in 1925, regarding her experiences in Chelm and forced labor in Germany under a false identity during the Holocaust

Transcript of the testimony of Chysia (Bookspan) Cohen, born in Chelm in 1925, regarding her experiences in Chelm and forced labor in Germany under a false identity during the Holocaust Family life in Chelm; her brother’s aliya to Eretz Israel in the 1930s; her father’s death in 1937; her sister’s aliya to Eretz Israel in 1938; increasing anti-Semitism; air-raids in Chelm after the outbreak of war in September 1939; the Soviet occupation of Chelm, their departure and the German occu...