Testimony of Braha Bronka Weisen, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Podgorze Ghetto and Auschwitz, Plaszow and Lichtewerden camps
Testimony of Braha Bronka Weisen, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Podgorze Ghetto and Auschwitz, Plaszow and Lichtewerden camps
Testimony
Testimony of Braha Bronka Weisen, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Podgorze Ghetto and Auschwitz, Plaszow and Lichtewerden camps
Entry of the Germans, 1939; decrees against Krakow Jews; forced labor cleaning in a workshop; deportation to the Podgorze Ghetto, 1941; life in the ghetto and labor in Optima factory; separation from her family and deportation to Plaszow after the liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; labor in a quarry until 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to forced labor in a factory in Lichtewerden; liberation by the Red Army, 01 May 1945.
Return to Krakow, December 1945; joining the Gordonia movement; stay in the Wuerzburg and Giebelstadt DP camps; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
3564638
First Name
Braha
Brakha
Bronka
Last Name
Veizen
Weisen
Date of Birth
1926
Place of Birth
Krakow, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
10116
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives