Testimony of Miriam Folk, born in Lublin, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Lublin, Minsk, a camp in Siberia and Bazar

Testimony of Miriam Folk, born in Lublin, Poland, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in Lublin, Minsk, a camp in Siberia and Bazar Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family. Outbreak of the war; rumors of what is happening to the Jews in areas under German occupation; escape to the Soviet Union; crosses the Bug river; escape to Minsk; deportation to Siberia; camp life; labor logging trees; suicide of inmates; transfer to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan; food shortage. Reunion with her father; move to a Polish orphanage in Bazar; orphanage life; knits clothing and sells them in exchange for food; death of her father; return to Poland; injury to Jewish refugees by Poles; life in Bialy Kamien; Hashomer Hatzair members gather together children including the witness; receives food, clothing and Jewish traditional observance; learns Hebrew; move to France; life in Val de Loire in a palace; aliya to Israel, 1948.