Testimony of Hela Rapaport, born in Piotrkow-Trybunalski, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Lodz, a camp in Poznan and Auschwitz

Testimony of Hela Rapaport, born in Piotrkow-Trybunalski, Poland, 1921, regarding her experiences in Lodz, a camp in Poznan and Auschwitz Life in the Lodz Ghetto; riots by the Volksdeutsche and their abuse of elderly and sick people after the sealing of the ghetto; "Aktions" and curfew at night; transfer with other young women to a camp in Poznan; labor unloading and loading rocks and gravel; hanging of two women inmates who attempted to escape from camp; transfer to Auschwitz with other young women inmates; Auschwitz camp registration process; tattooing of number 55231; selections; brutal attitude toward the women inmates from Poland; harassment by the Jewish women supervisors from Slovakia; transfer to Lager B, Kommando unit number 103; life in the shadow of the crematoria; labor in construction work; transfer to labor in the Union factory; labor producing detonators for cannon shells; deterioration of the situation following the Allied air-raids; death march to Ravensbrueck and then to Gleiwitz camp; transfer of the women inmates to Krzywice camp; liberation by the Red Army, 05 May 1945. Receives medical treatment by Red Army physicians in Sugenheim; aliya to Israel, 1950.