Testimony of Tova Tauba (Topper) Cweczkenbaum, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Tarnobrzeg, Lwow, Siberia and Uzbekistan

Testimony of Tova Tauba (Topper) Cweczkenbaum, born in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Tarnobrzeg, Lwow, Siberia and Uzbekistan From a religious family; father is drafted into the army, summer 1939. German occupation and bombings, September 1939; abuse of the synagogue beadle and the Rabbi; mandatory call-up in the city square and refusal by her mother to go; theft of their valuables; joining the convoy of the evacuated; march to Lwow; meeting her father; deportation to Siberia, summer 1941; transfer to camp at point 105; residence in shack with other children without adult supervision; suicide; lack of hygiene and hunger; release from the camp and transfer to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan without her parents while responsible for younger brother; transfer to parents in Tashkent; end of war, 1945. Return to Poland, 1946; attitude of the Poles; residence in Stettin; back to school to study the basics; aliya to Israel, 1950.