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Testimony of Shoshana Veis, born in Bydgoszcz, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony
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Testimony of Shoshana Veis, born in Bydgoszcz, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding Only child in a well-to-do family in Bydgoszcz. On vacation when the war broke out; move to Warsaw; ghetto life including private studies and forced labor in the Toebbens factory; in hiding with a non-Jewish woman, January 1943; move to another hiding place due to fear of being discovered; outbreak of the Polish uprising, August 1944; wounded; hospitalization under care of nuns in Krakow. Joins kibbutz training; wanderings en route to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel via detention camp in Cyprus, 1946.
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item Id
3565043
First Name
Shoshana
Last Name
Veis
Date of Birth
1924
Place of Birth
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
10498
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
17/09/1996
Date of Creation - latest
17/09/1996
Name of Submitter
וייס שושנה
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
38
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection