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Testimony of Zila Celina (Rozenblit) Akner, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Jaroslaw Camp, Mosty Wielkie Ghetto, in hiding, Plaszow and other places

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Testimony of Zila Z--- (Rozenblit) Akner, born in Jaroslaw, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Jaroslaw Ghetto, Mosty Wielkie Ghetto, in hiding, Plaszow and other places Life before the war; attends a Jewish school; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; move to Lwow, 1938. Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; concentration of the Jews in the police station; injury of her father; deportation to the Lwow Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in a mending workshop; her father's work on the Judenrat; the Large "Aktion", October 1942; hidden by a Polish woman within the ghetto; transfer to the Mosty Wielkie Ghetto; help given to Jews by Krupa, the German commandant; obtains forged documents for her parents and brother; her parents and brother move to a sawmill outside the city; liquidation of the Jewish Quarter; joins her parents in their hiding place at the sawmill; raid on the sawmill by the police following their being informed on; murder of her brother; escape to a forest; life in the forest and in hiding in bunkers; capture of her father with others in hiding in the forest and their murder; capture with her mother and deportation to Janowska; liquidation of the camp and murder of her mother; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including labor dealing with corpses in a mass grave; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to the crematorium and return to the block; death march to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; liberation by the British Army. Move to Germany; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, late 1947; starts a family.
item Id
5765475
First Name
Celina
Tzelina
Tzila
Zila
Last Name
Akner
Kolodi
Maiden Name
Rozenblit
Date of Birth
28/05/1924
Place of Birth
Jaroslaw, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
31/08/06
Date of Creation - latest
31/08/06
Name of Submitter
אקנר קולודי רוזנבליט צילה צלינה
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection