Testimony of Esther (Braun) Walerstein, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Rzeszow, Lwow, Siberia, Tyumen and Szczuczyn

Testimony of Esther (Braun) Walerstein, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Rzeszow, Lwow, Siberia, Tyumen and Szczuczyn Membership in Hashomer Hatzair, 1930s; draft of her boyfriend into the Polish Army. German Army occupation of Rzeszow, 1939; encouragement of the members of the [Hashomer Hatzair] movement to escape to the Soviet Union; escape to Lwow; deportation to Siberia; life in Siberia including labor logging trees in forests; invasion of the German Army into the Soviet Union; release from the camp; life in Tyumen including hunger; birth of her daughter, 1945. Move back to Poland; life in an aliya training "kibbutz" in Szczuczyn; DP camp life in Germany; aliya to Israel, 1948.