Testimony of Chana Anka Berta (Lezerkevitz) Goldfinger, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Moravska Ostrava, Wiznica, the Krakow Ghetto, Budapest and other places

Testimony of Chana Anka Berta (Lezerkevitz) Goldfinger, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in Moravska Ostrava, Wiznica, the Krakow Ghetto, Budapest and other places Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; deportation of Jews without citizenship to Poland; deportation of her father; escape with the family and joins her father in Wiznica; life in Krakow including work; work assignments for the Wermacht; unsuccessful escape to Russia; escape to Poland; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; "Aktion" against children; in hiding in an attic; labor performed by her mother and father; construction of a secret bunker in a workshop; murder of the intelligentsia and their burial in a mass grave; escape of her sisters from the ghetto to a bunker; escape and liquidation of the ghetto; escape to Hungary and receives 1,000 zloty from the manager of the Polish workshop; escape to Budapest; escape to Miske; life with an assumed Polish identity with the help of forged documents; work in agriculture; pretends to be Catholic; liberation by the Red Army. Help from the JDC; move to Vienna; life in Vienna; Gordonia activities; aliya to Israel, 1950.