Testimony of Mania Edelstein, born in Izbica-Kujawska, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Izbica-Kujawska, Lukow, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Mania Edelstein, born in Izbica-Kujawska, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Izbica-Kujawska, Lukow, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen German occupation in Izbica-Kujawska; harassment; kidnapping Jews for humiliating labor; the synagogue becomes a stable; Yom Kippur prayers at her parents home; invite to the ministry of labor and deportation with a group of women to Lukow camp; labor on a farm for the estate owner; murder of her father in an unkown location; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, September 1943; living in block 25; receives the number 55630; living conditions in Auschwitz; labor as an inmate group leader; help to other inmates; selections by Josef Mengele; extermination process in Auschwitz; evacuation to Bergen-Belsen; mass mortality rate in the camp; labor in the camp kitchen; help to other inmates mainly with food; death march of inmates from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen; last days in the camp; liberation by the British Army, April 1945. Rehabilitation process; life in DP camps in Germany; aliya to Israel, 1949.