Sara Malka Gantz

Testimony of Sara Malka (Bigel) Gantz, born in Leordina, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Leordina Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a forced labor camp in Germany and forests From a traditional family; life before the war; education; Jewish community; life in various places in Romania; return to Leordina; relations with neighbors. Murder of relatives by Romanians; German occupation; decrees and abuse; synagogues are turned into warehouses; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; hiding of valuables; deportation to the Leordina Ghetto; ghetto life including help from non-Jews in smuggling food into the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Birkenau; camp life including confrontation with the block elder and sewing aprons; transfer to a labor camp in Germany; camp life; air-raids; in hiding in forests; liberation by the US Army. Move to a nearby camp; move to Leipzig; life in Leipzig; return to Leordina; reunion with her uncle and younger sister; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1949.