Testimony of Luchia Lea Hochberg, born in Aleksandrow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Mehltheuer camps

Testimony of Luchia Lea Hochberg, born in Aleksandrow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Mehltheuer camps Her childhood; education; relations with the local population and the religious Jews; activities in the Gordonia movement. First days of the war; escape of her father to the Soviet Union; move with her family to Lodz; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life; Gordonia aliya training in Marysin; liquidation of the aliya training groups; life in a commune; labor knitting; return to her family; labor in a carpet factory; typhus; transfer to a convalescent home under the protection of the wife of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; death of her sister, August 1943; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Mehltheuer; forced labor in a factory; help from the German supervisor; liberation by the US Army. Return to Lodz; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.