Testimony of Etelca (Auslander) Perlmutter, born in Teocul de Jos, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Halbstadt

Testimony of Etelca (Auslander) Perlmutter, born in Teocul de Jos, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Gherla Ghetto, Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz and Halbstadt Traditional family; life before the war; attends a Romanian school; relations with the local population. German occupation, 1944; decrees and restrictions; deportation to the Gherla Ghetto; transfer to the Cluj Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents; camp life with her sister; transfer to Halbstadt; camp life including labor in a Krupp ammunitions factory; liberation by the Red Army. Convalescence; return to Teocul de Jos; knowledge concerning the death of her family in Auschwitz; marriage; starts a family in Cornesti; life under the Communist regime; move to Cluj; aliya to Israel with her daughter, an only child, 1964.