Testimony of Helen (Varmstein) Helfent, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Siberia Region and Kazakhstan

Testimony of Helen (Varmstein) Helfent, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1910, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Siberia Region and Kazakhstan Life before the war; youth movement activities; Zionist organization activities, among them the Jewish National Fund, JNF; obtains certificates. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life including labor cleaning; deportation to Siberia with her husband; life in Siberia including labor logging trees, March 1941; draft of her husband into the Red Army, June 1941; transfer to Kazakhstan; life in Kazakhstan including volunteering as part of the war effort; life hidden by villagers in the Karaganda area, January 1943-1945; avoidance of chances of being informed on; end of the war. Reunion with her husband; life in DP camps in Austria, Germany and Italy; activity with her husband in Barletta to encourage aliya; emigration to the United States, 1948; activities in Jewish organizations and fundraising for Eretz Israel; aliya to Israel after her husband's death, 2006; life with her sister's family.