Testimony of Efraim Bochenski Apter, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Morgi

Testimony of Efraim Bochenski Apter, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1939, regarding his experiences as a baby in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding in Morgi Life before the war; his father's military service in the Polish Army and desertion. German occupation; suggestion of escape from Warsaw by a German officer; sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life including his mother's labor in the Schultz clothing factory; witness is smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto by Bonczak, a Polish friend; life using a false identity in Bonczak's home; observance of Christian customs; his father's escape from the Warsaw Ghetto to be hidden by a Polish friend in Morgi; witness and his mother join his father; life in hiding; approach of the Soviet front; suspicion voiced by a Red Army soldier that the witness’s mother is a spy; removal of suspicion by a Jewish officer in the Red Army; shooting of family members. Return to Warsaw; move to Lodz; move to Germany; life in Zeilsheim DP camp; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; meets with the Bonczak family, 1988; Yad Vashem recognition of the Bonczak family as Righteous Among the Nations.