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Testimony of Cyla (Perski) Pisman, born in Oszmiana, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Oszmiana Ghetto, Panevezys, Stutthof, Derebek and other places. Life before the war; membership in a youth movement; attends a Tarbut school; her grandfather’s work as a farmer. German occupation; concentration of the Jews in a synagogue; shearing of half of the rabbi's beard; murder of her brother; deportation to the Oszmiana Ghetto; ghetto life including labor preparing wood for heating fuel; transfer to Panevezys; transfer to Stutthof; transfer to Tobruk; transfer back to Stutthof; camp life; deportation of her father to Dachau; separation from her mother; transfer to Derebek; camp life; death march; escape to a forest; in hiding in a village; Soviet occupation; detention by the Soviets. Work as a translator; reunion with her mother in Oszmiana; marriage, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1959; absorption in Israel.