Testimony of Marila (Shvartz) Birman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Boryslaw and a forest

Testimony of Marila (Shvartz) Birman, born in Drohobycz, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Drohobycz, Boryslaw and a forest Life before the war. Soviet occupation; life under Soviet rule; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions including yellow badge; forced labor in an SS officer's vegetable garden; arrest and flogging of her father; her father's release by a German officer; labor as a nanny; meetings with Bruno Schulz, the artist; deportation to Boryslaw; camp life; finds a bunker in which to hide during deportations; life in hiding with a group of women; informed on by Jews; escape to a forest; forest life including building bunkers; life in various bunkers; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Drohobycz; life in Drohobycz; aliya to Israel, 1950.