Testimony of Eliz Elza (Farkas) Marmor, born in Deda, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Marosvasarhely Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, forests in the Thorn area and other places

Testimony of Eliz Elza (Farkas) Marmor, born in Deda, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Marosvasarhely Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, forests in the Thorn area and other places Life in a religious family before the war; Jewish studies; treatment in the Romanian school. Annexation to Hungary, August 1940; ban on Jews attending school and dismissals of Jewish teachers; deportation to forced labor; refusal to accept information regarding detaining of Jews in Poland; German occupation, 19 February 1944; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge, April 1944; deportation to the Marosvasarhely Ghetto, 03 May 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, 28 May 1944; life in Block 30 including selections; attitude of the Jewish Blockalteste; air-raids; giving soup to inmates who had been transferred from Theresienstadt before their murder; suicides; transfer to Stutthof, 11 August 1944; camp life; labor in forests in the Thorn area; life in the forests including living in tents; blisters from digging trenches; murder of the sick; death march, January 1945; transfer to Bromberg in the snow over the course of six days; replacement of the SS by German Army soldiers; imprisonment; escape of the soldiers; liberation by the Red Army, 27 January 1945. Return to Bromberg on foot; escape from deportation to the Soviet Union; move to Lublin on foot and by train; life in Lublin including help from the community; return home by train; learns bookkeeping; marriage; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1973; life in Israel.