Testimony of Aviva Viktoria (Blum) Vaks, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, the Warsaw area and in hiding

Testimony of Aviva Viktoria (Blum) Vaks, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, the Warsaw area and in hiding Her childhood and family background; activities of her father, Abrasha Blum, in the Bund's Zukunft youth movement. Destruction of the family's home during air-raids at the outbreak of the war; move to a Warsaw suburb; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to the Umschlagplatz with her brother and sisters in the large "Aktion", 1942; rescue by her mother; escape to the Aryan side with her mother and siblings, February 1943; fate of her father; wanderings for several months; move to Grzegorzewice with her mother; stay with Polish estate owners for approximately one year; murder of the estate owner and his wife by Polish partisans; return to Warsaw with her mother; stay in Radosc until liberation by the Red Army. Appointment of her mother as the administrator of a Jewish orphanage in Otwock; joins Hashomer Hatzair; aliya to Israel, 1950; absorption.