Testimony of Marila Shabshovitz, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Neusalz, a death march, Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Marila Shabshovitz, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Neusalz, a death march, Flossenbuerg and Bergen-Belsen Orphaned of her father; life with her mother in her grandparents' home in Bedzin; well-to-do family; remarriage of her mother and their move to Strzemieszyce Wielkie. Deportation to Neusalz labor camp, 1941; labor camp life for more than three years; various labor assignments, mainly in a weaving factory and spinning thread; hunger; approach of the front and evacuation of the inmates on a death march that lasts seven weeks, 1945; arrival to Flossenbuerg; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in an overcrowded train without food or water, one week later; typhus; liberation of the camp by the British Army and hospitalization for three months. Move to Sweden by the Red Cross; return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1957; disappearance of her step-father at the start of the German occupation when he did not return from work; information regarding the murder of her mother by gunshot during her attempt to escape from a convoy headed in the direction of the camps; lack of information regarding her sisters and the witness' feeling that her sister, who was two years old, is still alive.