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Testimony of Libiena Epstein, born in Nova Paka, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Wittenberg
Testimony of Libiena Epstein, born in Nova Paka, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ravensbrueck and Wittenberg
From an assimilated family; life in Prage including work in an office.
German occupation; deportation with her parents to the Lodz Ghetto, late 1941; deaths of her parents in the ghetto; typhus; labor on a farm, in a laundry and a textile factory; learns Polish; repairing electrical appliances and telephones from World War I; marriage; deportation to Ravensbrueck, November 1944; transfer to Wittenberg; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945.
Return to Prague; aliya to Israel, 1950.
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item Id
4316898
First Name
Libiena
Last Name
Epstein
Date of Birth
1924
Place of Birth
Nova Paka, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
02/06/1992
Date of Creation - latest
02/06/1992
Name of Submitter
אפשטיין ליבינה
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
54
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Audio
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection