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Sara Rab

Testimony
Testimony of Sara Rab, born in Rajowiec, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Chelm, the Rajowiec Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna camp and other places Well-to-do liberal religious family; attends schools; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni youth movement and the Scouts. German occupation; shearing of beards of Jewish men; escape attempt of her uncle and his death; her father was a member of the Judenrat; escape of the Judenrat; mutual help; detention of her father in Chelm; "Aktion" and execution of men; deportation of her father to Krychow; maintains contact with her father until September 1943; death of her father; deportation with her family to Chelm; camp life and labor in the Gestapo office; deportation of her mother and sister to Sobibor, Shavuot 1942; escape with her sister from the Rajowiec Ghetto; return to the ghetto; ghetto life and various labor assignments; deportation to Majdanek; camp life and labor in fields; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life and labor producing weapons; transfer to Czestochowa, beginning of 1945; camp life and labor in a weapons factory; approach of the Red Army and evacuation of the camp; death march; transfer to Ravensbrueck; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British Army. Move to Sweden with the "Bernadotte Group"; rehabilitation; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 03 January 1948.
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5600249
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Sara
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Rab
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1921
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Rajowiec Lubelski, Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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31/08/04
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31/08/04
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רב שרה*
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection