Testimony of Nechama Bar-Nir, born in Kozminek, 1924, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, labor camps in Poland and on death marches

Testimony of Nechama Bar-Nir, born in Kozminek, 1924, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, labor camps in Poland and on death marches Outbreak of the war, 1939; her father hides four times during the searches for men; two brothers serve in the Polish Army; concentration of the Jews and deportation to Kalisz; return to Kozminek but their house was destroyed in January 1940; transfer to a ghetto; life in a bakery; sneaks into the bakery to obtain food; deportation to Stawiszyn camp after a selection done on Yom Kippur; forced labor digging; death of her mother; return to a ghetto, February 1941; labor cleaning for the Gendarmerie and carrying baskets for the Gendarmerie wives; liquidation of the ghetto, May 1942; deportation to Inowroclaw with a group of 40 female inmates; forced labor with her aunt and her two daughters unloading rail trolleys, removing remnants of lime and digging pits; deportation to Birkenau, June 1943; labor moving bricks from one place to another; selections and roll-calls; rescue; labor in a weaving factory; death march to Ravensbrueck by train, January 1945; transfer to Neustadt, six weeks later; small amount of labor in a camp without food; liberation, 02 May 1945. Wanderings back to Kozminek; move to Germany; aliya to Israel, 1948.