Testimony of Nechama Nadzhia (Kutner) Iakhimovitz, born in Kozminek, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, the Koluszki Ghetto; using a false identity in Czestochowa and other places

Testimony of Nechama Nadzhia (Kutner) Iakhimovitz, born in Kozminek, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, the Koluszki Ghetto; using a false identity in Czestochowa and other places Life before the war; death of her mother and move to Konstantinow. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation by foot to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including refusal of the father to shave his beard; escape with her father to Glowno; life in Glowno; transfer to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; escape to the Aryan side; life outside the ghetto including labor in the vegetable garden outside the city; escape due to lack of documents; life in the Koluszki Ghetto; labor peeling potatoes; escape to villages; life in villages in the area including agricultural work; escape to the Koluszki Ghetto a few times; deportation and escape to forests; finds a hiding place in an attic of Friedenstapp, a Volksdeutsche; receives old documents of her daughter; fear of being informed on; escape to Czestochowa; life in Czestochowa including labor for a Polish family using the assumed name Alicia Rutkowska; volunteers for labor in Germany, March 1943; life in Ostrau including labor as a maid for a Nazi family; liberation, May 1945. Return to Lodz; DP camp life in Germany; aliya to Israel on the ship "Atzmaut", 1950.