Testimony of Yanka Yokheved Erenfrid, born in Krakow, 1922, regarding her experiences in Krakow, the Bochnia Ghetto, Trzebinia and Auschwitz camps, a death march and Bergen-Belsen camp

Testimony of Yanka Yokheved Erenfrid, born in Krakow, 1922, regarding her experiences in Krakow, the Bochnia Ghetto, Trzebinia and Auschwitz camps, a death march and Bergen-Belsen camp Her parents' house; her father is very religious and her mother is liberal regardIng observance of the religious commandments; witness attends a Polish school in the morning and a Jewish school in the afternoon; Zionist activities in the Akiva youth movement; Jewish life in Krakow; displays of antisemitism by the "Endeks". Outbreak of the war; entry of the Germans; eviction of the family from their home; murder of Jews on the streets during the first days of the war; escape of the family to a nearby village and then to the Bochnia Ghetto; labor sewing uniforms for the Germans; “Aktions”; murder of her father right in front of her eyes; her sister joins the partisans; the Judenrat informs on the Jews and collaborates with the Nazis; liquidation of the ghetto, early 1942; deportation to Trzebinia camp; arbitrary abuse of the Jewish inmates by the head of the camp; meets her older sister and her family; kindergarten in camp; evacuation of the camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau, November 1942; survival in Auschwitz; helps by recruiting gold to buy weapons for the young male inmates in Buna- Monowitz camp; death march to Gleiwitz camp, winter 1944; arrival to Bergen-Belsen camp; cares for a young inmate girl named Simone Weil who was left an orphan; camp horrors; liberation, April 1945. Marriage, 1947; life in Germany until 1949; aliya to Israel; hardships; death of her husband.