Testimony of Tamar Henya Mukhtar née Wisniewska, born in 1940/1942 in Poland, about being placed with a Polish foster family during the war and her experiences in orphanages in Lodz and Kraków

Year of birth not known (placed by mother with the Polish Czuprynski family in 1943, with a note on which only her name appears); adoptive mother dies from a German stray bullet as the Germans retreated in February 1945; the family moves to Grabica; witness is handed over to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; placed in an orphanage in Lodz in 1948; lives there for several months; placed in an orphanage in Kraków; life in the orphanage; attends Jewish schools; feels different from ...