Testimony of Haim Sternbach, born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, in hiding in a monastery in Turkawice, and in Lodz

Testimony of Haim Sternbach, born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, 1938, regarding his experiences in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, in hiding in a monastery in Turkawice, and in Lodz His parents' family names were Bleiberg and Fridman; his father's work as a journalist; his mother's work in a bank; activities [by his parents] in Hashomer Hatzair. His mother's attempt to rescue him [?]; changing of [his father's] family name from Bleiberg to Buzanski; murder of his mother at the railroad station in Warsaw; travel by train to a monastery in Turkawice; hiding of Jewish children in the monastery; receives a Christian education. Removal from the monastery by the coordination organization; move to Lodz; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; fostered [adoption] by the Sternbach family; discovery of his true identity during the 1960s; receives knowledge regarding activities [by his parents?] in the underground from a book about the Tomaszow community.