Testimony of Eva (Rapaport) (alias Kofko Ratajska) Ezuz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, Lwow and in hiding in Rzeszow

Testimony of Eva (Rapaport) (alias Kofko Ratajska) Ezuz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences as a child in Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, Lwow and in hiding in Rzeszow Life in Warsaw before the war; well-to-do Communist family; her parents are lawyers. Outbreak of the war; escape to her grandfather's home in Lwow; life in Lwow including attending a Soviet kindergarten; German occupation, June 1941; escape of her father to a sausage factory; transfer to the Jewish quarter with her mother, brother and grandparents; her father's life using a false identity; her mother's escape to her father; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, late 1941; Warsaw Ghetto life including meeting with her grandparents; fear of the Jewish police; escape to her parents; life with her parents in the home of a Polish friend of her father's; detention of her parents and their murder in a prison due to being informed on by a Jewish woman; life in the home of a Polish family financed by her grandfather; separation from her brother; transfer to another family in Rzeszow; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Incidents of rape of women and looting by Red Army soldiers; move to her aunt in Lodz; aliya to Israel, 1949.