Testimony of Malka Amalia (Veis) Lachman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in hiding, in a camp in Stryj and using a false identity in Warsaw

Testimony of Malka Amalia (Veis) Lachman, born in Stryj, Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in hiding, in a camp in Stryj and using a false identity in Warsaw Life before the war; traditional family; attends an elementary school and a Polish high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; studies pharmacy in Lwow University; escape to Stryj; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions including restriction of movement; yellow badge; transfer of her brothers to forced labor; "Aktions"; life in hiding at home; activities of the Judenrat and the Jewish police; deportation to a camp in Stryj; labor in a sawmill; escape to Warsaw by train with a girlfriend; life in Warsaw using forged documents; appeal to a Polish woman to employ her as a housemaid; liberation by the Red Army. Life in Bielsko including work in a Jewish orphanage; illegally crosses the border into Czechoslovakia with help from the Jewish Brigade; illegally crosses the border into Germany with help from the Jewish Brigade; Fohrenwald DP camp life; marriage, 1946; birth of her son; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; absorption on Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov.