Testimony of Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, born in Gritsev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Gritsev Ghetto, Starokonstantinov Ghetto and with a partisan unit in forests

Testimony of Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, born in Gritsev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Gritsev Ghetto, Starokonstantinov Ghetto and with a partisan unit in forests Outbreak of the war, summer 1941; attempt to escape; return to Gritsev with her family; anti-Jewish decrees; murder including drowning of Jews in a lake by Ukrainian policemen; murder of men in a forest near Gritsev in the first "Aktion", August 1941; rescue with her mother and toddler sister; life in the Gritsev Ghetto including murder in the Slavuta forests during the second "Aktion" in the autumn; transfer with those who were left to the Starokonstantinov Ghetto; ghetto life; concentration of the Jews of Ostropol, Staraya Sinyava and Krasilov in the Starokonstantinov Ghetto; removal from the ghetto with her mother by couriers from the partisan unit her father had joined; rescue of her toddler sister by a collaborator with the Germans; life with a partisan unit in the forests in the vicinity; (apparent) murder of her father and uncle with other Jews by Ukrainian members of the unit; liberation, March 1944. Finding her toddler sister; life until aliya to Israel, 1973.