Testimony of Miriam Fast, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding her experiences in Plaszow, Auschwitz and Neustadt-Glewe camps

Testimony of Miriam Fast, born in Krakow, Poland, 1911, regarding her experiences in Plaszow, Auschwitz and Neustadt-Glewe camps Draft of her husband into the Polish Army, where he was sent to the German-Polish front, September 1939; return or her husband with an amputated arm; deportation to Plaszow camp; forced labor; execution of inmates in the camp; struggle to survive; camp life, deterioration of conditions, hunger and exhaustion; labor in a workshop producing electricity; selections and transports to Auschwitz; humiliating attitude toward the inmates; punishment; deportation to Auschwitz, 14 January 1945; stay in the Gypsy camp in Auschwitz; evacuation of the camp, 17 January 1945; death march to Ravensbrueck; selection; transfer to Neustadt-Glewe camp; liberation by the US Army, 08 May 1945. Distribution of food and medicine to the liberated inmates by the US Army; transfer of the liberated inmates to Soviet authority; horrible acts by the Red Army soldiers, in particular their humiliating attitude toward the women survivors liberated from the camps; return to Poland; reunion with her husband who was liberated from Bergen-Belsen; rehabilitation of their life in Krakow; life in Katowice; aliya to Israel, 1950.