Testimony of Gerta (Frishler) Tzaifinger, born in Skoczow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Laze Ghetto and Gabersdorf labor camp

Testimony of Gerta (Frishler) Tzaifinger, born in Skoczow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Laze Ghetto and Gabersdorf labor camp Traditional family; prominent community personalities, institutions and good relations with the Polish population before the war. Outbreak of the war and its first day; decrees, forced labor, burial of the synagogue's religious articles; deportation of the Jews to the Laze Ghetto and labor with local Jews, May 1940; deportation of the young people from the ghetto to Gabersdorf labor camp, February 1942; labor in a thread factory; good attitude toward the Jews; details about the factory manager Theodor Romfel, the foremen and the Jewish supervisor; a baker from a Czech village gives the female laborers extra bread; death in the camp of a young woman named Pressman after her refusal to eat non-kosher food; increase in the food portions several days before the liberation; liberation and return to Poland, May 1945. Departs to Germany after the Kielce pogrom; aliya to Israel, 1949.