Testimony of Chana Chanka (Shvartzbaum) Pops, born in Szczekociny, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Siberia, a punishment camp in Taiga and Yangi Yul

Testimony of Chana Chanka (Shvartzbaum) Pops, born in Szczekociny, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Siberia, a punishment camp in Taiga and Yangi Yul From a traditional Zionist family; witness' father is a Zionist activist; organization of an anti-Nazi boycott by her father; her mother volunteers in WIZO; attends a Bialik Hebrew school. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; family escapes to Luck, 03 September 1939; life under Communist rule; deportation of the family to Siberia, June 1940; life in a punishment camp in Taiga; mail contact with relatives in Poland; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; release; wanderings in Yangi Yul; disease; hospitalization; black market work; help given to Polish refugees by her father; liberation, 09 May 1945. Return to Poland; move to Germany; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.