Testimony of Edna Esther (Birnbaum) Todres, born in Radauti, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Rozwadow, Siberia, Tundra and in an orphanage in Stalinabad

Testimony of Edna Esther (Birnbaum) Todres, born in Radauti, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Rozwadow, Siberia, Tundra and in an orphanage in Stalinabad Her father's emigration from Poland to Romania before the outbreak of the war. Deportation of her family members to Rozwadow, Poland because they were foreign citizens, 1939; transfer to Siberia; death of her grandmother; death of her grandfather; life in Siberia including searching for food in garbage containers and the hardships in obtaining kosher food for her father; her mother earns the family's livelihood; her father's illness; death of her father; move to Tundra, Uzbekistan; hospitalization of her mother in a hospital due to a contagious disease; concern for her siblings including hardships to obtain food; receives food from a Moslem woman teacher; death of her younger sister; her mother's return from the hospitalization; death of her brother; placed in an orphanage in Stalinabad due to her deteriorated physical condition; life in the orphanage, in which 50 of the 200 orphans were Jewish, and including the attitude of the counselors; liberation, 1945. Move to Lodz with a group of Poles; joins the Ichud; move to Paris in the context of Youth Aliyah; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; reunion with her mother; keeps in contact with her mother; life in Israel, including marriage.