Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more

Testimony of Batia (Baumgarten) Feled, born in Lodz, Poland, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bialystok, Bogdanovich, Sverdlovsk and more From a close-knit, secular, Communist family; childhood. Outbreak of war; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape from the ghetto with help from a smuggler; crossing the Bug River; detention by the Red Army; release; transfer to Bialystok; meeting with her family; transfer of the women to Kazakhstan; transfer of the men to labor in iron mines in northern Russia; death of her mother from typhus; transfer of the witness and her father to a labor camp in Bogdanovich; camp life including hunger, cold and lack of framework; transfer of the witness to an orphanage in Sverdlovsk; life in the orphanage including loneliness and hunger; end of the war. Return to Poland with her father and her family; move to a DP camp in Germany; return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1957.