Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia

Testimony of Rivka Patznik Burstein, born in Warszawa, Poland, 1933, regarding her escape to the USSR and exile to Siberia Family background. The outbreak of war; bombings on the city, fire; escape to her grandmother's house; shearing of Jewish elders; back to Warszawa; establishment of the Warszawa ghetto; whistleblowing; sleeve strap; her parents' escape from the ghetto; escape with her mother through sewers with the help of a Pole for a fee; travel by train to Lodz; arrival in Bialystok and Brisk; finding shelter in the rabbi's home; meeting with parents, 1942; transfer by train by the Red Army to the Bog River; deportation to Siberia; lice; hunger; studies in a Russian school; parental imprisonment following a tip-off; escape from the fireplace. Libation by Wanda Wasilewska; repatriation to Poland; collection of the group of children by the Joint; studies in a Polish school; antisemitism; black market trade; imprisonment; move to Kibbutz Bergen-Belsen; hospitalization; meeting with her emissaries; avoiding boarding the ship Exodus; aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption.