Testimony of Zipora Levinger, born in Erdevik, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in Wuestegiersdorf
Testimony of Zipora Levinger, born in Erdevik, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in Wuestegiersdorf
Testimony of Zipora Levinger, born in Erdevik, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and as a forced laborer in Wuestegiersdorf
Traditional family, including her grandparents; education in a monastery school and the Beitar movement; community life.
Relations between Jews and Christians before the war and with the outbreak of the war; life during the Hungarian occupation, 1942-1944; concentration of the Jews in a camp next to Baja; deportation to Auschwitz; en route to the camp; camp registration process in Auschwitz and selection; separation from her mother and her two younger sisters; life in Auschwitz; fruitless labor, fear, humiliation and hunger; transfer to Birkenau; transfer to Wuestegiersdorf labor camp and labor in a weapons factory; camp life; attitude of her sisters and the attitude of one of the German laborers; atmosphere in camp before the liberation; liberation by the Red Army, 09 May 1945.
En route and a long way to Yugoslavia; marriage and aliya to Eretz Israel; absorption in Israel and starts a family.
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item Id
3562864
First Name
Tzipora
Zipora
Last Name
Levinger
Date of Birth
1924
Place of Birth
Erdevik, Yugoslavia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
8632
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives