Flight to Survival

This is a thrilling story of the author of this book, Peninah (Pola) Cypkewicz who was seventeen years old when the German army entered her home town Wloclawek on September 14, 1939. After the unbearable terror the Nazis activated on the Jews in town the family disintegrated: father and brother managed to escape to Russia, Peninah and mother went on an adventurous way from Wloclawek to mothers sister in Warsaw. For almost five and a half years under Nazi rule Peninah managed...
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This is a thrilling story of the author of this book, Peninah (Pola) Cypkewicz who was seventeen years old when the German army entered her home town Wloclawek on September 14, 1939. After the unbearable terror the Nazis activated on the Jews in town the family disintegrated: father and brother managed to escape to Russia, Peninah and mother went on an adventurous way from Wloclawek to mothers sister in Warsaw. For almost five and a half years under Nazi rule Peninah managed with a little initiative and much luck, to survive this period going from Warsaw to the "HaShomer HaTsair" farm in Zharki, from there to a Kibbutz in Chenstochowa, passing the liquidation of the great ghetto, passing the liquidation of the small ghetto and the liquidation of the underground and finally working for almost one and a half years at the munition factory "Hasag". After the liberation in January 1945 she started a journey through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Rumania (where she met her husband) and from there to Hungary, Austria to Italy where she was crowded into a small fisher vessel with 178 people more. After an adventurous sailing of seven days she arrived together with her husband on October 25 as an illegal immigrant (Ma'apil) to Eretz Yisrael. This was the lucky end of a seven months journey that was organized by the "Brihah" organization. In Eretz Yisrael and later in the State of Israel she and her husband Josef Rosin grew a happy family of two children and four grandchildren.