Testimony of Yona Figgovi, born in Poznan, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka

Testimony of Yona Figgovi, born in Poznan, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka Life in the Warsaw Ghetto including labor in her father's carpet repair factory; collection of food and clothing for Janusz Korczak's orphanage; deportation of the children in Janusz Korczak's orphanage to the Umschlagplatz; labor near the Umschlagplatz; "Aktion" on Niska Street, summer 1942; meets her father after the "Aktion"; in hiding in a bunker during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 19 April 1943; discovery of the bunker by SS men; deportation to Treblinka; camp life including her father's labor as an expert in carpet repair; life in Treblinka I with Polish and Jewish inmates of various skilled professions; execution of Jewish camp inmates from July 1943; organizing by a group of inmates planning to escape from the camp; discovery of the groups intentions and their execution; outbreak of the Treblinka II uprising, 02 August 1943; execution of the camp's Jews, 23 July 1943; rescue of the witness from a mass grave; help from a Polish farmer; liberation by the Red Army. Receives medical treatment from a Jewish army physician; gives testimony to a journalist and to author Ilya Ehrenburg; marriage; life in Lublin; contact with the Bericha organization in Lodz; gives testimony to the Jewish Historical Committee in Lodz; move to Germany; DP camp life in Germany; move to Italy; aliya attempt by ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; testifies at the trial of a Nazi from Treblinka named Leopold Lanz in Vienna, 1966; testifies at the trial of Ukrainian war criminal Swiderski in Dusseldorf, 1971.