Testimony of Batia (Marder) Keret, born in Wlodzimierz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Wlodzimierz Ghetto, in hiding, in Vladimir, Volbgaro and Israel

Testimony of Batia (Marder) Keret, born in Wlodzimierz, Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in the Wlodzimierz Ghetto, in hiding, in Vladimir, Volbgaro and Israel Her childhood with her mother in a single-parent family. Deportation to the [Wlodzimierz] Ghetto, 1940; views a father smothering his [crying] baby; her mother relinquishes a Bausweis certificate [?] for her; pogrom; murder of her family members; transfer to the Wlodzimierz Ghetto No. 2; in hiding in the storeroom of a non-Jew, in exchange for payment; escape to Bialin; move back to Ghetto No. 2 due to hunger and the cold; activities of the Judenrat headed by Kodush; in hiding in a pit including thirst and drinking urine; escape to a forest [with help from?] a non-Jew named Ringa, winter 1943; in hiding; work knitting for a Polish woman; escape to the partisans; death march in the direction of the Soviet front and supply of food from the Red Army; move to the Kibriza region; liberation in Vladimir, spring 1944. Life after the war, including work and education; move to Volbgaro in a cart, 1947; witness attends a Tarbut school; activities in the Bnei Akiva movement; preparations for aliya to Israel with her foster mother Vatum from Lublin [?]; hands over shops owned by her mother to the non-Jew, Ringa; aliya to Israel on the "San Lukas" [?] ship, 1950; life in Israel, including starting a family.