Testimony of Asher Richard Boimler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Lodz, assumes a false identity in Warsaw, with a Polish family in Kielce and Piotrkow

Testimony of Asher Richard Boimler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Lodz, assumes a false identity in Warsaw, with a Polish family in Kielce and Piotrkow Life before the war; traditional family; attends a Polish school. German occupation, September 1939; escape to Warsaw due to his mother's bad health; life in Warsaw with an assumed Polish identity; life with forged documents; death of his mother, February 1942; burial of his mother in a non-Jewish cemetery; escape to a Polish family in Kielce; life in Kielce with an assumed identity with a Polish family, 1942; escape with the family to Piotrkow; liberation by the Red Army, 17 January 1945. Life under the Soviet regime; move to a Jewish family; move to a Hashomer Hatzair youth movement member in Lodz; life in Lodz with a group of children who were hidden in the past by non-Jews; life in Lyon; aliya attempt on the "Exodus" ship; capture of the ship and deportation on three other ships to France; deportation to the Hamburg port; transfer to Emden, September 1947; life in Bergen-Belsen DP camp; aliya to Israel on the ship "Kedmah", 1948.