Testimony of Etka Mordkovitz, born in Stawiszyn, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Kozminek and Lodz Ghettos, and in Auschwitz, Geislingen, Bergen Belsen and Allauch camps

Testimony of Etka Mordkovitz, born in Stawiszyn, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Kozminek and Lodz Ghettos, and in Auschwitz, Geislingen, Bergen Belsen and Allauch camps Deportation to Kalisz, 1940; transfer by passenger train to the Lodz Ghetto; transfer back to Kalisz; transfer to Kozminek; establishment of a new ghetto, 1940; adequate conditions; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1942; in hiding with her brother in a cistern under their house during "Sperre" curfew; works in brassiere and uniform factories; liquidation of the ghetto, August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; is selected for labor; transfer to Bergen Belsen; lives in tents; transfer to Geislingen; labors in kitchen and at Wittenberger Werke factory; massive air raids some time around April 1945; work in factory ceases; transfer to Allauch camp in France; extensive wanderings by train under Hungarian military guard; railroad cars opened and Red Cross parcels received, 28 April 1945; Hungarian guards flee, 30 April 1945; liberation by US Army near Munich. Spends two years in DP camp in Landsberg; two years in France; aliya to Israel, 1949.