Testimony of Chana (Krumholtz) Izhar, born in Kuty, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Kuty and Tashkent

Testimony of Chana (Krumholtz) Izhar, born in Kuty, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Kuty and Tashkent Life before the war; traditional family; witness attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation, 1939; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; evacuation with Russian families in the direction of the east; life during the evacuation; air-raids; move to Tashkent; life in Tashkent; young people receive help from the authorities; work in a military factory; typhus illness; payment of bribery; end of the war, 1945. Move to Bucharest; life in Bucharest; joins aliya training in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Jewish State" ship, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, January 1948.