Testimony of Pesia (Witenberg) Cohen, born in Michaliszki, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Soski, Vaivara, Goldfilz, Kuremaa and other places

Testimony of Pesia (Witenberg) Cohen, born in Michaliszki, Poland, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Soski, Vaivara, Goldfilz, Kuremaa and other places Studies in the Tarbut teachers seminary in Vilna. Teaches in a Jewish school during the Soviet occupation, 1939-1941; German occupation, June 1941; capture of men for forced labor; rumors regarding the murder of Jews in pits; takes advantage of her "Aryan" looks, and her move to a village; pretends to be a villager woman and smuggles food into the Michaliszki Ghetto on the market days; liquidization of the Michaliszki Ghetto; transfer to the Vilna Ghetto with her mother and brother; murder of the Jewish communities from the Ponary vicinity; labor unloading the belongings of the murdered people; deportation to camps in Estonia under the supervision of people in the German Army; transfer to Vaivara, 1943-1944; transfer to Soski; transfer to Kuremaa; transfer to Goldfilz; transfer to Lagedi; camp life including labor in an infirmary, kitchen and hairdressing salon; transfer with the inmates by ship to Stutthof; death of her mother and brother; transfer to Ochsenzoll; camp life including labor producing shells, July 1944-March 1945; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation. Work as a teacher in Bergen-Belsen DP camp; receives a certificate to Eretz Israel as a youth leader of a group of children from the Blankenese castle, 1946.