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Testimony of Jadwiga (Jaszunska) Koenigstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences under a false identity on the Aryan side in Warsaw

Testimony of Jadwiga (Jaszunska) Koenigstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences under a false identity on the Aryan side in Warsaw Life before the war; her parents Jozef and Eliza; life with her family in Warsaw during the war; life of her older sisters in Moscow; murder of her husband in January 1940; death of her mother in September 1942; life under a false identity on the Aryan side with her daughter Alina, born in 1934; deportation of the Jews of the ghetto to Treblinka; survival with the help of Catholic nuns in a convent in Robertsin; transfer of her younger sister Maria, born 1909, to forced labor in Germany as a non-Jewish Pole; survival of her sister; aliya to Israel of her daughter Alina in March 1960; life until 1979. Testimony in Polish and Hebrew.