Testimony of Lea (Polak) Pasternak, born in Sacel, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony of Lea (Polak) Pasternak, born in Sacel, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Attends a Romanian school. Annexation to Hungary; expulsion from school, 1941; allocation of food coupons; decrees; German occupation, spring 1944; concentration of the Jews in the local synagogue; deportation to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; transfer to the train station in Bocicoiel; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life and forced labor digging trenches; horse bite injury; rescue by the block elder; forced labor knitting socks for the German Army; transfer to Ravensbrueck; transfer to Manhof; camp life including forced labor in a subterranean ammunitions factory; liquidation of the camp; evacuation of the prisoners under guard; liberation by the Red Army, 04-05 May 1945. Walk on foot to Berlin; typhus; return home; move to Viseul-De-Jos; help from the JDC; meets her future husband; aliya to Israel with help from relatives in Belgium and the Red Cross onboard the "Jerusalem", 1961; reunion with her brother.