Testimony of Rebeca Rivka Renia (Lindebaum) Ilutovich, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, her escape to the Aryan side and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Rebeca Rivka Renia (Lindebaum) Ilutovich, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1917, regarding her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, her escape to the Aryan side and in Bergen-Belsen Her childhood in the city; Noar Hatzioni activities. German occupation, September 1939; murder of her father; confiscation of property; managing houses owned by her father under a German supervisor; yellow badge; sealing of the ghetto, November 1940; hunger; food smuggling; mutual help; house committees; disease; meetings of the underground in the home of the witness; illegal schools; the Jewish Police; street singers; deportations, summer 1942; labor in a workshop making uniforms; hiding during the "Aktions"; the small rebellion, January 1943; escape from the ghetto with her husband, February 1943; switching from one hiding place to another on the Aryan side; aid from the Polish underground; being informed on; arrival at the Polski Hotel; meeting with members of the underground who fled from the burning ghetto; inclusion on the Palestinian list; detention by the Gestapo and deportation to Bergen-Belsen; evacuation, April 1945; liberation by the US Army in the Magdeburg area. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945; rehabilitation and absorption.