Mina Miler

Testimony of Mina Miler, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, in a forest and with the partisans Life before the war; Jewish community; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1939; draft of Jews to forced labor; identification of Jewish owned shops; confiscation of possessions; concentration of Jews at assembly points; escape to Warsaw; life in the Warsaw Ghetto including her father's labor in the children's kitchen; disease and mortality; arrest of her father and his deportation; labor with her mother in a brush workshop; deportation of her mother; in hiding in a bunker; discovery of the bunker after being informed on; transfer to the Umschlagplatz; deportation in the direction of Majdanek; escape from the deportation train to a forest; meets with a forester; joins a partisan unit and activities in its ranks; meets her future husband, the unit commander; escape from the Germans and crossing the river; liberation by the Red Army. Work in a hospital; move to Lublin on foot; move to Lodz; marriage, 1945; move to Germany; aliya to Israel via France, 1949.