Testimony of Bela Teichman, born in Turek, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Turek Ghetto, Poznan, Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt-Glewe

Testimony of Bela Teichman, born in Turek, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Turek Ghetto, Poznan, Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt-Glewe Family with five children; her father is a tailor. Deportation to the Turek Ghetto with her family at the age of 13; escape six months later; in hiding in a village with her family in a hiding place prepared for them by a Christian farmer; return home one month later; deportation with her two sisters to a military camp next to Poznan; labor in a field; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau about six months later; receives number 55708; "Aktion" and shaving of hair; various labor assignments in Birkenau; typhus; transfer to Ravensbrueck, January 1945; starvation; cannibalism; transport on a truck for 10 days until arrival in Neustadt-Glewe; starvation, cold and floggings; liberation by the US Army; meets Jewish soldiers in the US Army; distribution of food. Return to her parents' house in Poland; help from a neighbor who remembers the family; reunion with her brother; marriage in Lodz; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya, 1948.