Testimony of Lea Gal, born in Zdzieciol, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Zdzieciol Ghetto and with the partisans in the Nowogrodek forest

Testimony of Lea Gal, born in Zdzieciol, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Zdzieciol Ghetto and with the partisans in the Nowogrodek forest Her family are Slonim hasids; her father was a ritual slaughter and mohel; death of her mother from tuberculosis, 1936; life in the Zionist Jewish community; learns Hebrew and religious studies; attends the high school in Vilna until 1938; joins the Hechalutz Hatzair movement; aliya training in Lodz until August 1939; Soviet occupation; studies in a teacher's college until 1941; German occupation, June 1941; murder of her brother; death of her father from an illness; deportation to the Zdzieciol Ghetto; ghetto life including the shortage of food, forced labor and in hiding during the "Aktions"; murder of her sister and nephews; joins the partisans under the leadership of Yehezkel Atlas, August 1942; life in the forests near Nowogrodek; typhus; amputation of feet due to frostbite; partisan activities; contacts with non-Jews; acts of revenge against Germans; liberation, August 1944. Return home; move to Lodz; meets Zivia and Antek Zuckerman; move to Germany; life in Leipheim DP camp from January 1946; move to Italy, October 1946; life in Milan; marriage; aliya aattempt onboard the "Moledet", March 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, November 1947; life on Kibbutz Alonim.