Testimony of Esther Rivka (Willig) Wagner, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Buczacz, Warsaw, in hiding while using a false identity, in the United States and other places

Testimony of Esther Rivka (Willig) Wagner, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in Buczacz, Warsaw, in hiding while using a false identity, in the United States and other places Daughter of the rabbi of Buczacz, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Willig. Soviet occupation of Buczacz, September 1939; German occupation of Buczacz, June 1941; "Aktion"; deportation to Belzec on a train with her mother; escape from the train; move to Warsaw; life in hiding while using the Aryan documents of Teresa Wilanska; transfer with her sister-in-law to service in the German Air Force; work in the kitchen of a military unit for eight months until the liberation, May 1945; move to Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; liberation by the British Army. Interrogation and clarification by UNRRA regarding her Jewish identity; move to a gathering place for Jewish refugees in Celle; marriage; move to Belgium; emigration to the United States; aliya to Israel, 2000.