Testimony of Adela Bar Eli, born in Stryj, Poland, 1909, regarding her experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Lvov and in hiding

Testimony of Adela Bar Eli, born in Stryj, Poland, 1909, regarding her experiences in the Drohobycz Ghetto, Lvov and in hiding German occupation of Drohobycz, late June 1941; pogrom by Ukrainians with help from the Germans, which lasts for three days, in which hundreds of Stryj Jews are murdered or injured; economic hardships at the start of the occupation; establishment of the Judenrat in Drohobycz; detentions and deportations of Jews to Belzec camp; murder of 300 Jews in the Bronica forest near Drohobycz; establishment of the Drohobycz Ghetto after the large "Aktion", August 1942; housing and nutrition hardships; concentration of the surviving Jews from surrounding towns in the ghetto; German demands to hand over Jews who are unfit for labor; in hiding with her child and other Jews during one of the "Aktions"; suffocation of children by their mothers while in hiding; murder of the deputy head of the Judenrat, Rotenberg; travel to Lvov with her son, disguised as a Christian, to search for temporary housing in the city; detention by a Ukrainian policeman who blackmails her for money and valuables; in hiding in a Polish friend's home; her husband is a physician in one of the clinics in Lvov; reduction in the ghetto's size following the deportations to Belzec; manhunt for people who are in hiding; looting of murdered people's possessions by Ukrainians and Germans; life in hiding with her husband and son; liberation by the Red Army. Life under Soviet rule after the war; repatriation to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1948.