Testimony of Ellinor (Kempner) Fiebelman, born in Breslau, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Germany, the Riga Ghetto, camps in Latvia and Germany and a death march

Testimony of Ellinor (Kempner) Fiebelman, born in Breslau, Germany, 1925, regarding her experiences in Germany, the Riga Ghetto, camps in Latvia and Germany and a death march Her family; community life; displays of antisemitism; membership in Habonim and Maccabi movements; revocation of her father's license as a lawyer; death of her father; move to Berlin, 1939; studies to be a kindergarten teacher. Draft to forced labor in a Zeiss Ikon factory, 1940; deportation of her mother and brother to Riga, November, 1941; deportation to Riga, approximately two months later; selection; murder of elderly people in gas trucks; ghetto life; labor clearing snow from the roads; labor carrying wood in the Skirotava railroad station, spring 1942; hanging of Jews who attempted to escape; labor in the kitchen of an Adam Opel factory; transfer to Lenta, approximately six months later; labor repairing army uniforms; liquidation of the Riga Ghetto and transfer of the group to Kaiserwald; volunteers to labor to repair cables for the army and transfer to AEG in Riga; approach of the Red Army; transfer to Stutthof; disease and lice; transfer of the women who had labored in AEG in Riga to Thorn; labor repairing cables; death march; escape with two female friends; liberation by the Red Army near Bromberg. Rehabilitation with help from the JDC; move to Berlin, late 1945; work in an orphanage; Bergen-Belsen DP camp life, 1947; marriage; aliya to Israel, May 1948.