Testimony of Cypora (Drewniak) Melamed, born in Lublin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences while using a false identity, in Przemysl, on the Soviet side, in Lwow, Kokand and Moscow

Testimony of Cypora (Drewniak) Melamed, born in Lublin, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences while using a false identity, in Przemysl, on the Soviet side, in Lwow, Kokand and Moscow Orphanage life in Rzeszow. Outbreak of the war; receives documents as a non-Jewish woman from Germans; transfer by the Germans to Przemysl along with her younger brother and three young women; concentration of Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in a monastery; execution of Jews in a forest near Przemysl, late 1939; escape from the monastery across the San River to the Soviet side along with a group of Jewish children, with help from Polish officers who are POWs; receives help from Red Army soldiers; move to Lwow; labor in a Branka factory; receives help from writer Wanda Wasilewska; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; evacuation to Uzbekistan along with laborers in the factory; labor in a kolkhoz; move to a cooperative in Kokand; receives help from a Jewish woman from Moscow; receives an invitation from Wanda Wasilewska to work in one of the cooperatives of the Zwiazek Patriotow Polskich (Z.P.P.) in Moscow. Repatriation to Poland, 1946; life in Wroclaw in a "kibbutz" of the Ichud pioneering movement; work as an educator in an orphanage; murder by Poles of kibbutz member Bezalel Zilberberg, 1947; aliya to Israel via Czechoslovakia and Austria, 1948.