Introduction Just Before the War: The Last Holiday The War Begins: From the Frying Pan to the Fire Early in the War: Escape Back Home Caught Without an Armband Into the Ghetto Aktion! Death Comes to Czestochowa Ransacked! On the Edge of the Ghetto Ms. Sporna “You Cannot Stay” Alone on the Run Hiding in the Attic Die Alone or Die With My People? Seeing Father One Last Time Arranging A Dangerous Escape Plan Smuggled to Bedzin Reunited with My Grandparents Into the Camps-Bolkenhain On to Landeshut Moved Again-Grünberg Camp The S.S. Take Over The March Begins Into the Cold-From Grünberg to Bautzen The Execution at Bautzen On A Bridge in Dresden Helmbrecht’s Hell Back on the March-Neuhausen Onto Czechoslovakia with No Food A De!ant Greeting from the Czechs Goodbye, Dear Halinka Escape at Last! The German Farmer The War is Over Hospital in Prachatice Nursing Back to Health Returning to Human On to Austria Displaced with Lonek-Salzburg Leaving Salzburg Reunited To America Bu!alo and Gerda Surviving America Looking Back Afterword Acknowledgments Photos About the Authors Amsterdam Publishers Holocaust LibraryA young girl flees the Nazis in Poland and embarks on a harrowing journey of survival. From work camps to a brutal death march, Halina's resilience shines through amidst the cruelty and despair.A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the late hours of the night. Confronted by a policeman, Halina Goldberg unexplainably runs away from her father and begins her long journey of survival. When tired of fleeing, she volunteers to go into a work camp. That decision buys her some time because the Germans need labor for the war effort. Halina works in three different camps from the Fall of 1943 to January 1945. At first, the camps are bearable even though they are worked hard and fed very little. But as the Germans begin to lose the war, the conditions turn deathly. The Jews become overrun with disease and their captors grow crueler and crueler. As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the SS empty the camps and set over 2,000 women on a four-month long march that would cover over 800 kilometers during one of Europe’s coldest winters on record. Halina was one of the only 300 who survived and finally felt the need to record her hellish story of survival.A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the late hours of the night. Confronted by a policeman, Halina Goldberg unexplainably runs away from her father and begins her long journey of survival. When tired of fleeing, she volunteers to go into a work camp. That decision buys her some time because the Germans need labor for the war effort. Halina works in three different camps from the Fall of 1943 to January 1945. At first, the camps are bearable even though they are worked hard and fed very little. But as the Germans begin to lose the war, the conditions turn deathly. The Jews become overrun with disease and their captors grow crueler and crueler. As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the SS empty the camps and set over 2,000 women on a four-month long march that would cover over 800 kilometers during one of Europe’s coldest winters on record. Halina was one of the only 300 who survived and finally felt the need to record her hellish story of survival.