Chaia Smichkovitz

Testimony of Chaia Smichkovitz, born in Chorzow, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Zamosc Ghetto, in hiding in a convent and life using a false identity as a Polish woman on a farm near Nittenau, Germany Her family before the war; move to Bedzin due to her father's work in a zinc factory, 1930; witness attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war; deportation of her paternal grandfather to Auschwitz; deportation of the family to the Zamosc Ghetto; ghetto life; forced labor on the estate of a German Army officer; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; deportation of the Jews in the direction of Majdanek; escape to a forest; in hiding in a convent with the help of a nun; receives Aryan documents from the nun; volunteers for labor in Germany using a false identity as a Polish woman; transfer from Lublin to Schwandorf, Germany; labor on a farm near Nittenau; US Army air-raids; liberation by the US Army. Search for her sister; marriage in Munich; aliya to Israel, 1949.