Testimony of Bella (Iagodnik) Goldstein, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, the Soviet Union, Tashkent, Siberia and more

Testimony of Bella (Iagodnik) Goldstein, born in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, 1931, regarding her experiences in Ostrow Mazowiecka, the Soviet Union, Tashkent, Siberia and more Childhood including being orphaned of her mother. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union, deportation to Siberia; labor of her father in logging trees; mutual help among the refugees; attends a Soviet elementary school, for about two years; transfer to the Asian Soviet Union with the approach of the German Army; arrival at Tashkent; life in Tashkent including hunger and robberies; transfer to a kolkhoz; life in a kolkhoz including agricultural work and lack of food; death of her family members from typhus; move to an orphanage in Fergana with the aid of the JDC. Return to Poland after the war; move to DP camps in Germany; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; life in Eretz Israel.