Testimony of Rachel (Kertovitz) Vigoda, born in Rozan, Poland, 1929

Testimony of Rachel (Kertovitz) Vigoda, born in Rozan, Poland, 1929 Her parents' home. Concentration of the Polish Army in Rozan; German occupation, 1939; leaving her home; air-raids; escape to Ostrow; German occupation of Ostrow; travel restrictions; shearing of beards; bread rationing; opportunity to transfer to the Soviet Union; warm welcome in Bialystok, the Soviet Union; living in a synagogue; transfer to Pochowic, Belorussia; living quarters in a cinema; transfer to the Pochowic railroad station; attends a Soviet school; invasion of the German Army into the Soviet Union, June 1941; escape by train; bombardment of Stalingrad; approach of the German Army; escape; air-raids; journey to Siberia; living in a sovkhoz near Omsk; end of the war. Search for relatives; return to Zamkowa, Poland; joins a Poalei Zion Left kibbutz; antisemitism in Poland; departure for Austria by train; the Ebensee [DP] camp; move to a British military camp near Salzburg, 1946; help from the Joint Distribution Committee; aliya to Israel, 1949, rehabilitation.