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Testimony of Sara Borko, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, during wanderings among the villages in the vicinity and in forests and using a false identity in Dresden

Testimony of Sara Borko, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, during wanderings among the villages in the vicinity and in forests and using a false identity in Dresden German occupation; establishment of the Rafalowka Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a Polish female neighbor; wanderings among the villages in the vicinity and the forests; help from villagers over the course of a year; attitude of the Ukrainians towards the Poles in the villages; escape to her female neighbor; joins the Poles for work in Germany; obtains forged Aryan papers in Dresden, August 1943; work in a slaughterhouse kitchen and in the municipal hospital; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Hospitalization; transfer to a hospital in Sommerfeld; life in the home of the Polish mayor; return to Poland; move to Lodz; move to Leipheim; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.
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3558713
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Sara
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Borko
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1925
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Rafałówka, Poland
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Testimony
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4815
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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בורקו שרה
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YES
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26
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Audio
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection