Testimony of Regina Rivka (Grodner) Lowicz, born in Biala-Podlaska, regarding her experiences in Biala-Podlaska, the Mierdzyrzec Ghetto and the Skarzysko, Majdanek, Czestochowa camps

Testimony of Regina Rivka (Grodner) Lowicz, born in Biala-Podlaska, regarding her experiences in Biala-Podlaska, the Mierdzyrzec Ghetto and the Skarzysko, Majdanek, Czestochowa camps Secular home with seven children; her father was a lumber merchant; Polish school; Hashomer Hatzair membership. Deportation to the Biala-Podlaska Ghetto, 1940; her mother Sara Grobman, her father Shlomo Grodner and her brothers were murdered in the ghetto; deportation to the Miedzyrzec Ghetto; labor building roads; jumping from a train to the camp and return; deportation to Majdanel during another "Aktion"; forced labor removing stones; among the 500 women who were sent to Skarzysko; labor in the ammunition industry; transfer to Csestochowa to continue labor in the ammunition industry; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the illegal immigrant ship, "Yad Hamaapil", 11/1945