Testimony of Mika Miriam Mania Marisa (Storozum) Yaron, born in Lodz, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Rowne, Uzbekistan, a kolkhoz and Karshi

Testimony of Mika Miriam Mania Marisa (Storozum) Yaron, born in Lodz, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Rowne, Uzbekistan, a kolkhoz and Karshi Life before the war; secular family; draft of her father into the Polish Army. Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 1939; her father is taken captive by the Red Army; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life; escape to Rowne in a cart and by trains; life in Rowne under Soviet occupation; retreat of the Red Army, 1941; her family joins a Soviet Army convoy in retreat; expulsion from the military convoy in the Soviet Union; escape to Uzbekistan on trains; life in Uzbekistan including transfer to a kolkhoz; her father's labor; escape to Karshi; life in Karshi including malaria disease; end of the war. Reunion with her father; return to Lodz; life in orphanages; aliya training; illegally crosses the border into Czechoslovakia; illegally crosses the border into Austria and Germany; life in Germany including reunion with her parents; DP camp life, from 1946; aliya to Israel, 1948.