Testimony of Halina Gerstman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula Ghetto, and Annaberg and Blechhammer camps

Testimony of Halina Gerstman, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, Srodula Ghetto, Annaberg and Blechhammer camps Family of Gur hasidim; life before the war; attends a Jewish elementary school and Beit Yaakov school; joins a Zionist movement. Outbreak of the war, 1939; looting of Jewish houses by their neighbors; economic hardships; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; ghetto life including forced labor in a German factory, 1940; transfer to the Srodula Ghetto, 1942; ghetto life including forced labor; marriage; in hiding during an "Aktion"; liquidation of the Srodula Ghetto, 1943; separation from her husband and deportation to Annaberg; camp life including labor in laundries for the Germany Army; transfer to Blechhammer; meets her injured husband; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Return to Sosnowiec; receives help from the Jewish community; aliya to Eretz Israel via Italy.