Miriam Lemanska

Testimony of Miriam Lemanska, born in Lodz, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Kamenets-Podolskiy Ghetto, the Rowne Ghetto, using a false identity in Lwow and Luebeck-Schlutup, and other places From a traditional-secular family; her father is a building contractor; her family makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1925; her family return to Poland, 1926; her home becomes a shelter for Socialists and Communists; attends a Polish school. German occupation; decrees; behavior of the Volksdeutsche; escape to Bialystok with her sisters; move to Lwow; move to Kamenets-Podolskiy; German occupation; betrayal by her landlady to the police; escape; Ukrainian pogrom against the Jews; labor as a nurse in a Jewish factory; deportation to the ghetto, November 1941; ghetto life including labor mending army uniforms; forging documents; escape to the Rowne Ghetto with forced laborers; ghetto life including "Aktions"; in hiding in the attic of the synagogue; escape to Lwow using a false identity; obtains forged documents; move to Warsaw; move to a camp in Germany; life with non-Jewish forced laborers in Luebeck-Schlutup; suspicion that she might be Jewish; help from a German camp guard; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Sweden; detention in a prison; return to the camp; sabotage while at labor; liberation by the British Army. Help from a forced laborer who fathers her son; search for relatives after the war; aliya to Israel, 1959.