Child of the Forest

Yona Bromberg recalls the German invasion of her hometown of Rokitna, in Poland as she was herded, along with the rest of her family, to the village market. "My family and all other Jews in Rokitna", she explains. "Once on the village market the SS surrounded the building with uniformed soldiers and machine guns. Suddenly someone yelled "Run Jews, run!" and those who could flee to the woods." Yona later explains that "My brother and father weren't as lucky as my mother, my sister and me; they were killed, and we survived in the woods for eighteen months until Liberation." The core interview with Yona Bromberg was captured in Hallandale Beach in 2012.