Testimony of Schulamith Silvia (Wagenberg) Khalef, born in Dessau, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Schulamith Silvia (Wagenberg) Khalef, born in Dessau, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Aliya of her father to Eretz Israel, 1938; life with her older sister in the Jewish orphanage in Berlin; detention of her mother and her escape to England; move of her sister to aliya training and the witness joins her; deportation and joins a transport to Auschwitz with her sister's aliya training group, April 1943; joins the women inmates' orchestra in camp as a recorder player, under the direction of Alma Rose; disease in camp; protection by the block elder who hides her; camp life; relations in the women inmates' orchestra; concern by Alma Rose for the young women inmates in the orchestra and her relations with Fania Fenelon; witness' position regarding publications about Alma Rose after the war; death of Rose in camp before the termination of the orchestra; transfer of the members of the Jewish orchestra to Bergen-Belsen, November 1944; cruel attitude of the Germans and Hungarians; Irma Grese; liberation, 15 April 1945. "Eating regime" with friends from the women's orchestra; contact with the Jewish Brigade and an aliya organization; reunion with her mother and the confrontation between her mother and members of the Jewish Brigade; escape from her mother with help from the Jewish Brigade members; aliya attempt with Aliya Bet, 1946; Atlit detention camp life; life in Kibbutz Afikim.