Testimony of Bella (Mowszowski) Melman, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Slonim, Vilna, Kobe, Japan and Rhodesia

Testimony of Bella (Mowszowski) Melman, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Slonim, Vilna, Kobe, Japan and Rhodesia Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Slonim; return to Bialystok; life under Soviet rule; arrival of Polish and Jewish refugees to Bialystok; escape to Vilna; attends a Jewish school; help from the community; receives a visa signed by Chiune Sempo Sugihara, who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; move to Kobe via Moscow on the trans-Siberian railroad; attitude of the Japanese. Move to South Africa; life in Rhodesia.