Testimony of Yocheved Iakha (Rudawski) Bielostotzki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Yocheved Iakha (Rudawski) Bielostotzki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz and other places From a traditional family; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 1939; annexation to the Soviet Union, October 1939; school lessons in Russian; joins the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a textile factory; her mother's death; deportation to Majdanek via Treblinka, August 1943; camp life including cleaning labor; transfer to Blizyn, September 1943; camp life including labor sewing socks; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including office labor; encounter with Mengele; transfer to Kratzau, October 1944; camp life including assembling gas masks; liberation by the Red Army, 09 May 1945. Return home; displays of antisemitism; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; absorption.