Testimony of Miriam Masha (Reuter) Migdal, born in Sawin, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Illintsy, Siberia and Samarkand

Testimony of Miriam Masha (Reuter) Migdal, born in Sawin, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Illintsy, Siberia and Samarkand Religious family with limited means; attends Polish school; activities in the Hechalutz movement. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; German occupation; escape with her brother to Illintsy; life in Illintsy including work in a sugar factory; exile to Siberia; release from a detention camp in a forest, winter 1942; transfer to Uzbekistan; typhus; recuperation in Samarkand; death of her brother; end of the war. Move to Lwow, 1946; marriage and birth of her son; death of her son; move to Austria; life with the help of the JDC; aliya to Israel, 1949.