Testimony of Berta Talmai, born in Zmigrod Nowy, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Zmigrod Nowy Ghetto, Krakow, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and other places

Testimony of Berta Talmai, born in Zmigrod Nowy, Poland, 1916, regarding her experiences in the Zmigrod Nowy Ghetto, Krakow, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna and other places From a large ultra-Orthodox family; attends a Polish school; displays of antisemitism in school and in the surrounding area; activities in youth movements in opposition to her father's wishes. German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Zmigrod Nowy Ghetto; ghetto life including an "Aktion", 1942; liquidation of the ghetto and in hiding, September 1942; transfer to Krakow; deportation to Plaszow; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life with two sisters; transfer to Leipzig, August 1944; camp life including help from German functionaries; air-raids on the factory; death march, May 1945; liberation. Return to Poland; aliya training in Czestochowa; wanderings among DP camps in Germany until 1947; aliya attempt via ship; detention in Cyprus; detention camp life including suicides; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; marriage and establishing herself.