Testimony of Rachel (Gorbach) Fligelman, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Rafalowka, a forest, in hiding, in Pinsk and Chelm

Testimony of Rachel (Gorbach) Fligelman, born in Rafalowka, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences in Rafalowka, a forest, in hiding, in Pinsk and Chelm Her childhood in a well-to-do, traditional family. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; Red Army occupation of Rafalowka; life under Soviet occupation; German Army occupation of Rafalowka, July 1941; establishment of the Rafalowka Ghetto, 1942; her family's escape from the ghetto with help from a Ukrainian guard; life in a forest; murder of the people who hid them one month later; escape; meets her sister; wanderings between villages for one year; meets Jews; move to the home of a non-Jew in a village with help from a Jewish woman from the village; typhus illness; eviction from the home of the non-Jew due to the typhus illness; meets with partisans; stay and eviction [?]; meets a group of Jews; escape to Pinsk; liberation, early 1944. Move back to Rafalowka; move to Chelm; assembly of orphans in a "kibbutz" in Krakow, 1945; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, early 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, late 1947.