Testimony of Blanka (Kuenreich) Ickowicz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity in a village, in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Leipzig and a death march

Testimony of Blanka (Kuenreich) Ickowicz, born in Krakow, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity in a village, in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Skarzysko Kamienna, Leipzig and a death march Life before the war. German occupation, 1939; confiscation of the family's property; restrictions on the Jews including wearing an armband; eviction from the family's home; life in a village in the home of a Polish family; life using a false identity as a non-Jew; escape of her father to Lwow; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life including walks to Krakow and bringing objects for sale; "Aktions"; deportation of Jews to Belzec; murder of her father in Mauthausen; deportation to Plaszow in a march; camp life including the attitude of the Ukrainian guards; methods of punishment; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; marches to the labor place; typhus; approach of the Red Army front; transfer to Leipzig; camp life including labor in a HASAG factory; murder of children; air-raids on the camp; death march including shooting of women; liberation in a village in Germany, 1945. Return to her family's home; life in her family's home including reunion with her sisters; aliya to Israel, 1957.