Testimony of Zipora Berger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, using a false identity in Hrubieszow and Lublin, and in camps

Testimony of Zipora Berger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, using a false identity in Hrubieszow and Lublin, and in camps Life in Warsaw at the outbreak of the war; non-stop air-raids by the Luftwaffe; occupation of Warsaw, mid-September 1939; concentration of the Warsaw Jews in the ghetto; shortage of food, outbreak of contagious disease, and mass mortality, in particular among children; life on the Aryan side in Hrubieszow and Lublin using Aryan documents with the name Felicia Novokovska; labor in the "Arbeitsamt" office in Lublin; detention by the Gestapo and torture in the cellars of Zamek, the Lublin palace; detention with other Jewish women for nine months; deportation to Majdanek; inmates' labor in camp; selections and roll-calls; hanging of women in camp; extermination in the crematoria; transfer to Auschwitz; tattooing of inmate number A-47227; rescue by Mala Zimetbaum during witness' hospitalization in the Revier, the camp hospital; life in the shadow of the crematoria; evacuation from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, 17 January 1945; dysentery and lice in camp; liberation, 15 April 1945. Move to Sweden by the Red Cross; life in Sweden, 1945-1949; aliya to Israel, 1949.