Testimony of Miriam (Ostolici) Kaufman, born in Chichelnik, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Schoppau and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Miriam (Ostolici) Kaufman, born in Chichelnik, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Dragomiresti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Schoppau and Theresienstadt From a religious financially secure family with many children; her father works in a shoe workshop. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1942; termination of studies; her mother's death, 1942; nationalization of property by the Romanian government; German occupation, 1942; deportation of the family to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life, including labor spreading the ashes of the victims over the flowerbeds; transfer to Germany; labor in a factory in the Schoppau forest; transfer to Theresienstadt, 1945; meets her sister; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; reunion with her brother; joins aliya training; aliya attempt via Yugoslavia; detention in a camp at Atlit, 1946; joins Kibbutz Yavneh; starts a family.