Testimony of Dora Deborah Bloom Lov, born in Cluj, Romania, 1926, about the Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony of Dora Deborah Bloom Lov, born in Cluj, Romania, 1926, about the Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen camps Family background, Zionist family; her mother was born in Eretz Israel; a Jewish kindergarten; the Zionist Youth Movement; aliya of the older sister to Eretz Israel; move at the age of 15 to training in Budapest prior to aliya to Israel, 1941. Arrival of Polish Jews who had fled camps and information about the Auschwitz camp and other various camps; understanding the situation and forging documents; obtaining a Christian certificate; hiding Jewish Poles in a bunker; decision on illegal aliya to Eretz Israel; departure with a single group with Polish refugees, early May 1944; move to Zombor; snitching and seizure by the police and exposing the Jewish identity; transfer to Szeged; beatings in interrogation; transfer to Budapest; murder of Jewish men on the Danube in front of the witness; deportation to Auschwitz; arrival in Auschwitz, the end of May 1944; selection; Zionist songs in the camp to survive mentally; dreams about Eretz Israel; tattoo number on hand A10214; prostitution in the camp; the arrival of German businessmen to take Jews to forced labor in their factories; choosing the witness and starting work in the kitchen; approaching the front; transfer to the Dachau camp, December 1944; stay about two months; transfer to the Bergen-Belsen camp, February 1945; harsh conditions in the camp; typhus; mass death. Flee of German soldiers as the British approached; liberation; transfer to hospital; transfer to Helsingborg, Sweden; aliya to Israel; absorption.