A Life Reclaimed: A Child Among the Partisans - Softcover

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Memoirs of a Jew born in 1931 near Kovno. Pp. 31-106 deal with Olenski's experiences in the Holocaust. When the Germans entered Lithuania in 1941, Olenski and her father were temporarily staying in Białystok, while her mother and two brothers remained in Kovno, where the family had moved in 1935. Olenski's father was killed in the Black Saturday pogrom in Białystok in 1941 and Olenski ended up in the Białystok ghetto with some relatives. She hid during the roundup in 1942, and in 1943, when the ghetto was liquidated, jumped off the train destined for Treblinka. For almost six weeks Olenski coped on her own in the forest, then joined a group of Jewish partisans. She stayed with the partisans in the Bransk forest until the area was conquered by the Soviets in summer 1944. She returned to Białystok, and in 1947 emigrated to Australia. She later found out that her brothers had been killed in roundups in the Kovno ghetto, while her mother survived until 1944, when she was deported to a death camp, probably Stutthof.

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