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Testimony of Sara Novizki, born in Kozowa, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences on the farm of an SS man in Berlin

Testimony
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Testimony of Sara Novizki, born in Kozowa, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences on the farm of an SS man in Berlin Her childhood in a family with hardships; being orphaned. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, 1939; obtains food from the "sick people's kitchen"; German occupation, 1941; atmosphere of fear; sleeping in an attic; draft of girls [using false identities?] to forced labor in Germany; transfer to Berlin; various assignments on the farm and agricultural labor for a farmer who was an SS man; life on the farm including hunger, shortages, cold, brutal treatment and beatings; approach of the Red Army; escape from Berlin on a wagon drawn by donkeys [?]; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Lodz; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1956.
item Id
7699040
First Name
Sara
Last Name
Novitzki
Novizki
Date of Birth
1925
Place of Birth
Kozowa, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
11/02/09
Date of Creation - latest
11/02/09
Name of Submitter
Novizki Sara
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection