Rachel Garfunkel was born in 1930 in Krakow, Poland. Rachel and her family were forced to move into the ghetto in 1941. In 1942 Rachel and her sister managed to get out of the ghetto and spent the rest of the war hidden in a Polish family. In this excerpt, Rachel recalls the day her mother and other inmates helped her sneak out of the camp. Source: Montreal Holocaust Museum, 2016
