Testimony of Lore (Bender) Mainzer, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Amsterdam, and the camps of Vught, Auschwitz, Reichenbach, Hausberge, and additional places.

Testimony of Lore (Bender) Mainzer, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Amsterdam, and the camps of Vught, Auschwitz, Reichenbach, Hausberge, and additional places. Childhood in Berlin; Her parents: Rudolf Bender and his wife Gertrude (Cohen); persecution of Jews in Germany during the 1930s; her relocation to her aunt’s home in Amsterdam, 1937; her parents’ move to Amsterdam; participation in activities of the Maccabi movement; aliya training in Wieringermeer; German invasion of the Netherlands, 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation of her parents to a camp, 29 November 1942; Jews, including Lore, were concentrated in the Hollandsche Schouwburg building in Amsterdam; Lore’s deportation to Vught camp, 20 January 1943; work in the Philips factory (Philipskommando); deportation of Philipskommando workers to Auschwitz; life in Auschwitz for about six weeks; transfer of the Philipskommando to Reichenbach camp, early 1945; work at the Telefunken factory; further transfers of Philipskommando prisoners to various camps in the territories of Czechoslovakia and Germany; work at the Hammerwerke factory in Hausberge camp; forced labor in Hamburg; liberation and transfer to Sweden (via Denmark) at the end of the war through a Swedish Red Cross operation; stay in Sweden; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.