Testimony of Chana Maria (Grinberg) Distel, born in Glowaczow, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Glowaczow, the Marjampol Miasto Ghetto, Kozienice Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and Trzebien

Testimony of Chana Maria (Grinberg) Distel, born in Glowaczow, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Glowaczow, the Marjampol Miasto Ghetto, Kozienice Ghetto, using a false identity in villages and Trzebien Life before the war; religious family with hardships. Air-raids on Glowaczow; German occupation, September 1939; deportation to Kozienice, winter 1939-1940; escape to the Marjampol Miasto Ghetto; Marjampol Miasto Ghetto life in her aunt's home; death of the witness' parents and sister; deportation to the Kozienice Ghetto; Kozienice Ghetto life including sleeping outside; escape with women to outside the ghetto; trading in villages, autumn 1942; rumor concerning the liquidation of the ghetto; life in villages while using a false identity as a non-Jewish woman; learns Christian prayers; receives help from villagers; escape to Trzebien; life in Trzebien in the home of the Bratos family; work as a cow herder; witness' confession regarding being Jewish; approach of the war front; air-raids on Trzebien; liberation, June 1944. Rumor concerning a pogrom against Jews in Kielce; life in an orphanage in Otwock; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; aliya to Israel, 1950.