Testimony of Helena (Shtibelman) Spritzer Sprotzer, born in Lomza, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and sheltered by a German farmer
Testimony of Helena (Shtibelman) Spritzer Sprotzer, born in Lomza, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and sheltered by a German farmer
Testimony of Helena (Shtibelman) Spritzer Sprotzer, born in Lomza, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lomza Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and sheltered by a German farmer
Attends local schools; attends a vocational school, 1939.
Occupation of Lomza; anti-Jewish decrees; murder of 6,000 of the youth in the city; escape from the ghetto in order to make contact with partisans; capture; deportation to Auschwitz, January 1943; camp life including the Sonderkommando Uprising; execution of Rosa Robota and her comrades; Mala Zimetbaum's escape and capture; death march to Ravensbrueck; escape while being transferred to an unknown destination; receives shelter from a German farmer.
Life in Dresden after the liberation; aliya to Israel, 1948; testifies in trials of war criminals.
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Helena
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Shpritzer
Shprotzer
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Shtibelman
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Łomża, Poland
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Yiddish
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives