Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground

Testimony of Ada Rakocz, born in Gabin, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Gabin Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding, using a false identity and in the Polish underground Life before the war; well-to-do family; her father was a member of the city council; witness receives a Hebrew and Zionist education; music studies; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; receives knowledge regarding attacks against Jews and their property. Outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; robbery of Jewish property; escape of her father and her older sister to Warsaw; detention and torture by the Gestapo; Gabin Ghetto life; "Aktions" against Jews; smuggled to Warsaw with her mother; Warsaw Ghetto life; murder of Jews by hanging; underground activities at night; work in a sewing workshop and a coffee factory; suicide of the head of the Judenrat; "Aktion", September 1942; deportation of her parents and their murder; escape to outside the ghetto; life outside the ghetto including being hidden in the home of Poles; use of forged documents; joins the Polish underground; life in the Polish underground including a first aid course and a signal operators course; attacks on Germans; parachuting of food and weapons by the British Army; shortage of weapons, and surrender; hides in a monastery; injuries; hospitalization and work in a hospital; liberation by the Red Army. Zionist activities; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; marriage; life in France including her husband's studies; birth of her son; aliya to Israel, 1950.