Testimony of Lea (Rozin) Strosman born in Koenisberg, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Freudendorf and Leibisch camps
Testimony of Lea (Rozin) Strosman born in Koenisberg, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Freudendorf and Leibisch camps
Testimony
Testimony of Lea (Rozin) Strosman born in Koenisberg, Germany, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Freudendorf and Leibisch camps
Childhood in Vilkaviskis; attends a Hebrew school.
Soviet occupation; rescue from deportation to Siberia; outbreak of the war, 1941; murder of her father, July 1941; transfer with her mother to her eldest sister's house in the Kaunas Ghetto, October 1941; transfer with her sister to a nearby camp; murder of her mother in the large "Aktion", October 1943; evacuation of the camp, summer 1944; deportation to Stutthof; camp life; transfer to Freudendorf camp; transfer to Leibisch camp; transfer to Bromberg; life in tents in the camp and labor digging trenches; death march to Praust; camp life; liberation by the Red Army.
Hospitalization in an improvised hospital; transfer to a hospital in Danzig; return to Poland; move to Bialystok; printing of Ringelblum's memoirs; aliya to Israel, 1957.
Details
Map
Hierarchical Tree
item Id
4414920
First Name
Lea
Last Name
Shtrosman
Strosman
Maiden Name
Rozin
Date of Birth
07/05/1923
Place of Birth
Koenigsberg, Germany
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives