Documentation of the experiences of Henia (Golombiovski) Ilan, born in Sosnowiec in 1925, before, during, and after the Holocaust

Documentation of the experiences of Henia (Golombiovski) Ilan, born in Sosnowiec in 1925, before, during, and after the Holocaust Childhood in Sosnowiec; antisemitic manifestations; war erupts; one of witness's brothers sent to the camps; family members hide during manhunts for Jews; Jews rounded up on a soccer field in Sosnowiec; selection and deportation of some, including the witness's sister Lola, to the camps; witness hides with her parents; Jews of Sosnowiec banished to the Srodula ghetto; forced labor; witness sent to the Peterswaldau camp in May 1943; reports about murder of witness's parents as Srodula camp is liquidated in late summer 1943; witness sent to the Landeshut labor camp; hostility between Jewish women from Poland and Jewish women from Hungary; witness establishes contact with sister, Lola, who is in another labor camp; front approaches in spring 1945; prisoners assigned to digging defensive ditches; camp police flee on May 7, 1945; liberation by Red Army forces; rape of prisoners by Red Army soldiers; witness encounters Uncle Mandek (survived in the camps); moves to Czech area and thence to the Landsberg displaced-persons camp; reunited with sister, Lola, in Deggendorf; spends time in displaced-persons camps in Germany and Italy; works as a nurse in displaced-persons camps; works with Jewish Brigade soldiers and Aliya Bet actiists; immigrates to Eretz Israel illegally in March 1947; Lola, her husband, and their daughter immigrate to Eretz Israel; witness meets future husband, Shlomo (Olszanski) Ilan; serves in the Israel Defense Forces; marries and starts a family; life in Israel.