Testimony of Sulamit (Lorintz) Mermelstein, born in Cerny Ardov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Riga, Gdansk and other camps

Testimony of Sulamit (Lorintz) Mermelstein, born in Cerny Ardov, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Riga, Gdansk and other camps From a Shabbat observant secular family that owns a bakery. Hungarian occupation; attends a Czech school where the language of instruction is Hungarian, until 1944; German occupation, March 1944; decrees; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto; ghetto life; her brother's illness; deportation to Auschwitz, July 1944; transfer to Riga; camp life including labor sawing lumber; transfer to Gdansk; camp life including labor unloading ammunition; transfer to Stutthof; camp life, including labor at digging; transfer to Grodno, January 1945; death march to Lwow; liberation by the Red Army, 15 March 1945. Her mother's death after the liberation; return home; reunion with her father; aliya attempt via Austria, Germany and France; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.