Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans

Testimony of Lea (Pinchuk) Zeiger, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Rafalowka Ghetto, in hiding in a forest and with the partisans Traditional family; Hebrew education when she attends a Tarbut school; activities in the Beitar movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; attends a Soviet school; exile of wealthy people to Siberia; termination of private commerce; German occupation, 1941; termination of the Jews' trade activities and studies; deportation to the Rafalowka Ghetto; forced labor of young people; mass murder, and burial in a common grave; acts of murder; hides in a pit in a garden during an "Aktion"; liquidation of the Rafalowka Ghetto, late August 1942; brutal attitude of Ukrainian soldiers; robbery of Jewish property; murder of 3,000 Jews; escape to a forest with her mother and uncle (who was the head of the Jewish community) and his three children; fear and hunger; help from a Ukrainian acquaintance; joins a group in the forest; help from Subbotniks; joins a partisans camp under the command of General Fyodorov; search for food and attack[s] on German targets; liberation in Linz. Help from the UNRRA organization and the JDC organization; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.