Testimony of Lea (Onderwijzer) Zonenshein, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1927, regarding her experiences in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and Troebitz

Testimony of Lea (Onderwijzer) Zonenshein, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1927, regarding her experiences in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen and Troebitz Life before the war; contacts with her mother's sisters in Germany; her mother's activities to help refugees. German occupation, 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; establishment of a branch of the Judenrat in the store that her family had owned; work in the Judenrat's storeroom; work as a clerk in the community committee; deportation to Westerbork, autumn 1943; camp life; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, January 1944; camp life including labor with silkworm pupa, unloading shoes and in a kitchen; transport of Jews from Bergen-Belsen camp to Eretz Israel, May 1944; death of her parents; care of her younger sister; work in a children's home; liberation in Troebitz. Return to Amsterdam via Leipzig and Buchenwald; life in Heerenveen; aliya to Israel.