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Testimony of Pola (Boruchovitz) Fridman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and other places

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Testimony of Pola (Boruchovitz) Fridman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and other places Well-to-do traditional family; attends a Polish school. German occupation; decrees and the yellow badge; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life and cleaning the houses of Jews who had been deported; in hiding in a bunker under these homes; burning of the house; deportation to Lublin; transfer to Majdanek; camp life and labor cleaning the latrines; transfer with her sister to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life and labor in a weapons factory; transfer to Ravensbrueck; transfer to Malchow; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Poland; move to Germany; marriage and starts a family; aliya to Israel; life in Israel and work as a seamstress.
item Id
5600836
First Name
Pola
Last Name
Borukhovitz
Fridman
Maiden Name
Boruchovitz
Date of Birth
27/09/1920
Place of Birth
Warszawa, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
30/08/05
Date of Creation - latest
30/08/05
Name of Submitter
פרידמן פולה*
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection