Testimony of Klara Maayan, born in Munich, Germany, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw

Testimony of Klara Maayan, born in Munich, Germany, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Lwow Ghetto and in hiding in Warsaw Her family and Jewish life in Rzeszow until 1937; activities in youth movements; details about the Jewish community's leaders; studies in Warsaw and work in Korczak's orphanage as of 1937; details about Korczak, his educational methods, his impressions after a visit to Eretz Israel and about the orphanage; studies in an institute for Jewish studies. Outbreak of the war and travel to Warsaw from a summer camp in Zakopane; escape with her parents and brother to Lwow; move to Kaunas, January 1940 and an unsuccessful attempt to receive visas from the Japanese Embassy; return to Lwow; deportation of Jews to Siberia; escape from a mass murder by Ukrainians, July 1941; "Aktions" in March 1942 and August 1942; transfer to forced labor in Czortkow camp; the small ghetto in Lwow; mass murder and the hanging of Judenrat men in Lokietka Street; escape to Warsaw using forged documents; finds a hiding place; their Polish neighbors remain silent even though they know about the Jewish identity of the witness and her family. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Czechoslovakia and Romania, May 1945; life in Kibbutz Tel Yitzchak.