Testimony of Shoshana Roza (Fuerst) Menaker, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Tomaszow Lubelski, Lwow, Lipetsk and Chusovoy

Testimony of Shoshana Roza (Fuerst) Menaker, born in Rawa Ruska, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Tomaszow Lubelski, Lwow, Lipetsk and Chusovoy From a religious family; displays of antisemitism; move to Tomaszow Lubelski; learns the furrier trade and work sewing buttonholes. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape to Lwow with her sister; escape to Lipetsk; life in Lipetsk including labor in a steel factory and learning how to drive a locomotive train; transfer to Chusovoy; life in Chusovoy including work as a locomotive train driver for a factory; end of the war, 1945. Move to Silesia, 1946; displays of antisemitism; aliya attempt via Czechoslovakia, Austria and Italy including marriage in Rome; detention in Cyprus; birth of her daughter; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life in Israel including living in Gedera and agricultural work; expansion of the family.