Testimony of Rena (Pachanover) Mildner, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruek and Malhot camps and death march

Testimony of Rena (Pachanover) Mildner, born in Krakow, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruek and Malhot camps and a death march Her family; childhood; attends a Polish school. Entry of the Germans; sanctions, restrictions and termination of studies; deportation to ghetto; sealing the ghetto; organization in the ghetto: school and library; life with mother and selling valuables in order to exist; labor in knitting factory; deportations and rumors about the killing of Jews; liquidation of ghetto, March 1943; transfer to Plaszow labor camp; labor together with her mother in sewing factory; assistance from Austrian-German boss named Madrich; malaria; camp life; camp commander Amon Goeth; transfer together with mother to Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944; selection, showers, shaving of hair, humiliations; tattooing of number 22728 on witness and number 22729 on her mother; labor in sewing factory; camp life; informing done by the block elder on people during roll call; separated from her mother by Mengele and then return to her mother; hiding of witness and mother under a bed for three days; their discovery and transfer to Ravensbruek and from there to the Malhot camp; labor in weapons factory without being fed; transfer to a camp near Leipzig; death march, April 1945; collapse of witness and mother; discovery of witness and mother by Red Army soldiers and their transfer to a Red Cross camp. Arrival in Krakow, May 1945; receiving help form the Joint; reunion with her brother; aliya to Israel on the "Mezapia" ship, 1950.