Testimony of Chava (Osterweil) Zchut, born in Krakow, Poland in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Slovakia, in Budapest and while using a false identity in Vac

Testimony of Chava (Osterweil) Zchut, born in Krakow, Poland in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in the Tarnow Ghetto, in Slovakia, in Budapest and while using a false identity in Vac Draft of her father, who is a physician, into the Polish Army in the Lwow area, 1938; German occupation, 1939; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto with her mother, 1941; "Aktions", and they hide inside the ghetto; labor by her mother for the German industry; deportation of her father to Janowska camp, 1941; escape with her mother and other family members to Slovakia (the witness does not remember where); escape by her father from the camp, and she meets her father again in 1943; they illegally cross the border to Budapest, 1943; issuing of forged documents to her family members; life while using a false identity as non-Jewish Polish refugees; escape to the orphanage for Polish children in Vac, 1943; her father's work as a pediatrician in the orphanage; German occupation, 1944; life in Vac with her mother while using a false identity, 1944; liberation by the Red Army, 1945; Move to Budapest, 1945; opening of an orphanage in a Budapest suburb, administered by her father; move with her family and the children in the orphanage administered by her father to Ansbach Struth via Prague, 1946; move to the Ansbach Struth DP camp, 1948; move to Munich; her father works as a physician in a Jewish hospital, 1949; aliya to Israel, 1951.