Testimony of Ada (Gruenglass) Matilsky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto and assuming a false identity outside the ghetto

Testimony of Ada (Gruenglass) Matilsky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto and assuming a false identity outside the ghetto Life before the war; well-to-do family; life in the non-Jewish quarter. Outbreak of the war; her mother is wounded during an air-raid; escape of her father with her uncle to the Soviet Union; return of her father; capture of her father and his transfer to forced labor; Germans and Poles break into their home and robbery of the mother from her possessions; escape to the home of her aunt in the small ghetto; ghetto life; labor of her parents in the Tabens workshop; "Aktion" in the kindergarten near the workshop; payment of bribery of valuables to release the children; construction of a hiding place in the wall of their home under the window; life in hiding alone; involvement of her father in underground activities and contact with Mordecai Anielewicz; escape from the ghetto with forged documents to a non-Jewish family, January 1943; receives a note from her father in Treblinka camp; hands over the family property to a Pole; outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising and abandoned by the Poles; wandering between Polish refugees; fostered by a family in Grojec; suspicion that she is Jewish. Work as a maid for a family, 1945-1947; contact with the JDC; move to an orphanage in Otwock; adopted by her uncle who returned from the Soviet Union; aliya with her uncle to Israel, May 1950.