Miriam Israel

Testimony of Miriam (Choniu Honio) Israel, born in Rhodes, Greece, 1922, regarding her experiences in Haidari, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Raguhn from a well-to-do Sephardi family; life before the war. German occupation, September 1943; deportation by boat to Athens, 20 July 1943; detention in Haidari camp; deportation to Auschwitz; arrival at Auschwitz, 15 August 1943 [should be: 1944]; selection with her younger sister; transfer to a detention camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; separation from her sister who is ill with typhus; transfer in the direction of Buchenwald; transfer to Raguhn; camp life including labor in an aircraft parts factory; transfer to Theresienstadt, April 1945; liberation by the Red Army. Medical treatment; reunion with her younger sister; move to Rome; help from the Jewish community; aliya to Israel, 1972.