Testimony of Shayndel Beyla (Sheynaw) Miler, born in Krakow, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, Pionki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Elsnig and Bomlitz camps

Testimony of Shayndel Beyla (Sheynaw) Miler, born in Krakow, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, Pionki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Elsnig and Bomlitz camps Life before the war; hardships making a livelihood; the special atmosphere in public school; studies; displays of antisemitism by the teachers; afternoon studies in Beit Yaakov; studies with Sarah Schneier and her collection of money for charity; participation in the funeral of Sarah Schneier; displays of antisemitism in the years before the war; rescue of her family from violence during Easter; hanging of signs against Jewish shops by Polish Endeks. German occupation of Poland, 1939; hardships during the German occupation; establishment of military headquarters opposite her house; deportation of young men to labor; escape of her brother in the footsteps of the Polish Army; assembly at the Umschlagplatz for 24 hours and then deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto in trains; the family pays for a room in an apartment; death of her grandfather and his funeral in the ghetto; her sisters go out to labor; travel to purchase flour in nearby villages; detention in the ghetto for 24 hours during Pesach; "Aktions" and the reduction in the size of the ghetto afterwards; deportation to Plaszow camp; labor in the Medrich factory; beating of her female cousin by the Kapo; afternoon labor in a kitchen; hospitalization and a miraculous rescue from an inspection; beatings of everyone in the barracks after a female inmate eats an extra bowl of soup; deportation to Pionki camp and labor in a weapons factory; kitchen labor; helps a hungry woman friend; deportation to Auschwitz; selection by Mengele; tattooing of a number on her arm; receives help from an old acquaintance; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Bomlitz camp; labor in a weapons factory; conveyance of bombs; transfer to labor in Elsnig camp; religious observance of Yom Kippur and prayers; liberation. Escape to a near-by German village; rescue from abuse by the Soviet liberators; walks to Poland for three weeks; joins an Agudat Israel "kibbutz"; stay in France for three years; aliya to Israel; adjustment.