Perla Mandel

Testimony of Perla (Skorecka) Mandel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1913, regarding her experiences in Krakow, Plaszow Auschwitz and Brunnlitz camps Family life in Krakow before the war. Escape to Tarnopol for a few months; return with her baby under a false identity via Przemysl to Krakow and then Prokocim, spring 1940; meets with her husband and move to Wieliczka; her husband's involvement with H.K.P.; transfer of the female H.K.P. workers to the Krakow Ghetto and deportation of the remaining Jews to Belzec in an "Aktion", late 1942; among the deportees was her baby son who was hospitalized during the "Aktion"; labor and living conditions in Plaszow camp and events involving Camp Commander Amon Goeth; labor in a printing press; murder of the Jews in Gorka; start of the transfer of inmates to Mauthausen; her name is added to Oscar Schindler's list despite the fact she was not one of his laborers; deportation to Auschwitz and then to Brunnlitz. Oscar Schindler; return to Kracow after the war; gathering of Jewish children from monasteries by her husband; aliya to Israel with one of the children removed from the monastery, 1948; the survivors keep in touch with Oscar Schindler.