Testimony of Tova Dari née Veinberg, born in 1923 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and the Majdanek, Skarzysko, and Częstochowa camps

Testimony of Tova Dari née Veinberg, born in 1923 in Warsaw, about her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and the Majdanek, Skarzysko, and Częstochowa camps Life before the war; daughter of an affluent religious family; attending Havatselet Hebrew-language school; antisemitic manifestations; war breaks out in September 1939; bombardments; dispossession; closure of the family curtain factory; depredations by Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans); ghettoization in 1940; encountering refugees from Łódź; assistance in housing and money; family banished to the ghetto in 1941; father works in a sewing shop; working at a carpentry and cleaning Germans' homes; finding a hideout in a loft; captured with her mother by the Jewish police and handed over; released by the Germans; father and young daughter sent to Treblinka and murdered; sent along with mother to Majdanek; selection in Majdanek; mother is murdered; forced labor: hauling stones from place to place; dysentery; transfer to Skarzysko; life in the camp; tension between new and long-time prisoners; sexual abuse; working at a weapons manufacturing plant; paralysis in one leg; assistance from a Jewish doctor; liberated by Red Army forces; back to Warsaw; emigration to France; emigration to Brazil; immigration to Israel.