Testimony of Rivka (Finkelstein) Bromberger, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, in hiding, Majdanek and using a Polish identity in Hamburg

Testimony of Rivka (Finkelstein) Bromberger, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lublin Ghetto, in hiding, Majdanek and using a Polish identity in Hamburg Life before the war; relations with the Polish population; displays of antisemitism; blood libel; attends a Polish school; private Jewish education. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape of Jews to the Soviet Union; German occupation; establishment of the Judenrat and Jewish police; food shortages; informers among Jews; escape of her father; establishment of the Lublin Ghetto; "Aktions"; concentration of the local Jews in a field; return of her father; selection by Germans and Ukrainians; escape deportation in exchange of a bribe with a Ukrainian guard; hidden by Poles in various places; return to Lublin via villages; meets her father in Majdanek; escape to Germany as a Polish forced laborer; forged papers with the name Helena Smitzk; labor in a food factory in Hamburg; injured during shelling; recuperation in hospital; liberation. Return to Poland; death of relatives; aliya to Israel, 1957.