Testimony of Nechama Natka (Liberman) Mintz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Kumy, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Waldenburg and other places

Testimony of Nechama Natka (Liberman) Mintz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Kumy, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Waldenburg and other places Her father is a Zionist and Communist; aliya of her father to Eretz Israel, 1920s; her father's move back to Poland due to malaria illness. Participation in the defense of Warsaw, 1939; illegally crosses the border to Bialystok; return of her mother to Lodz in order to equip herself with belongings; volunteering for labor in Stolka [?] camp; her mother sends a letter to Stalin regarding the hunger; receipt of letters from her grandfather in Poland; escape from the camp to Kumy [Komi], Ukraine; German Army occupation of Kumy, 1941; escape to Uzbekistan; her father's work as a bookkeeper in the N.K.V.D.; move to a Sovkhoz in Ukraine, 1944. Move back to Waldenburg, 1945; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; illegal aliya attempt on the "Shear Yishuv" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949; life on Kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan.