Rivka Volak Wolk

Testimony of Rivka (Yelen) Wolk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto, Linkaiciai, Stutthof and Landsberg Religious family; life in a Jewish environment; joins Hechalutz movement led by Yitzhak (Antek) Zuckerman; move to a “kibbutz”; aliya training in Kielce. Outbreak of the war; walk with the group to Kowel; responsible for a group of children from Germany; move to Mielnica; move to Vilna; move to Siauliai; life in Siaulia and labor in a factory; deportation to the Siauliai Ghetto; ghetto life with the group and labor in an HVL military hospital; marriage; transfer with the group to an army camp in Linkaiciai; camp life; transfer to Stutthof; life with the group in the camp; transfer to Landsberg; camp life; death march; liberation. Search for group members; reunion with her husband; meets emissaries from Eretz Israel; illegally crosses the border with the group via Austria to Italy; purchase of a villa near Rome; life within the “kibbutz” in the villa; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; absorption.