Testimony of Rivka Renia (Lindenbaum) Ilutovich, born in Warsaw, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Bergen Belsen camp

Testimony of Rivka Renia (Lindenbaum) Ilutovich, born in Warsaw, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Bergen Belsen camp Her childhood; the outbreak of war; life in the Warsaw Ghetto; accounting work for the house committee; her parents' death in the ghetto; aliya of her two brothers to Eretz Israel in 1928 and in 1934; her sister's escape to the Aryan side; her marriage in the ghetto, 1941; deportation from her home, February 1942; working in Schultz' workshop; escape to the Aryan side; finding hiding places in attics and coal cellars; going to the Hotel Polski where she was attached to the exchange list of German nationals in Mandatory Palestine; deportation to Bergen Belsen, July 1943; life in the camp; liberation by the Americans; entry into the Mons DP camp; aliya to Eretz Israel via the "Mataroa" ship, September 1945.