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Helena Schweizer (née Horowitz) was born in Mikulińce in Podolia. She escaped from a forced labor camp in the Tarnopol province in July 1943, after the death of her parents and sister (who died in a neighboring camp on July 10, 1943). She hid in the forest, then was taken by Jan Misiewicz to his friend, Michał Ogórek, who hid her with several other people in a hole under the ruins of a castle near Mikulińce. She hid there until March 23, 1944. After liberation, she returned to Mikulińce and met a familiar family there, with whom she had escaped east due to the siege of Tarnopol. From there she went to Lviv, where she studied at a nursing school. After the end of the war, she came to Poland, to Bytom. Trying to get to Palestine, where her uncle, the only surviving member of the family, lived, she sailed from a port near Rome on a ship bound for Haifa. However, the ship was diverted by the British to Cyprus; she was placed in a camp in June or July 1947. On January 23, 1949, she arrived in Israel and moved in with her uncle’s family. Read more about Helena Schweizer: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Learn about other figures of the Holocaust Survivors: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Learn about the POLIN Museum's oral history collection: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Interview: Józef Markiewicz Photos: Józef Markiewicz Editing: Piotr Boruszkowski Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGH_... Visit the Virtual Shtetl: https://sztetl.org.pl/ Join the Facebook community: / virtualshtetl Other POLIN Museum channels: POLIN: / mhzp2013 Polish Righteous: / polscysp. . Write to us: [email protected]