Lili Avivi

Testimony of Lili (Preizler) Avivi, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Viseul de Sus, Auschwitz, Bromberg, Philippsthal and other places Life before the war; attends a Romanian school. Draft of her father to forced labor for the Romanian Army; deportation to the Viseul de Sus Ghetto; deportation in the last "Aktion" to Auschwitz; separation from her family; transfer to Bromberg; camp life including labor harvesting carrots and storing them; transfer to Philippsthal; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; death march; escape to the mountains; life in the shelter of an abandonned house; liberation. Return to Viseul de Sus; finds the belongings that her grandfather buried in a bunker during the war; joins a Zionist framework; move to Italy; life in a "kibbutz" in Italy; aliya attempt on the "Lo Tafchidunu" ship, 1947; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.