Testimony of Lina Perakhia, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki, Athens, Auschwitz and Birkenau

Testimony of Lina Perakhia, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding her experiences in Thessaloniki, Athens, Auschwitz and Birkenau Life in Thessaloniki with her family, before the war. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the "Baron Hirsch" Ghetto on Synrou Street with her parents, brother and sister, February 1943; decision by her family to move to another ghetto after the departure of the first transport from the ghetto; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge, 25 February 1943; move of her brother by kayak to Athens; move of her brother to Kymi; move to the home of her father's sister; move to Athens by train on travel that lasts eight days, in exchange for a bribery payment of much money, spring 1943; German Army occupation of Athens, September 1943; finds a hiding place in an institution for mentally ill patients, [in] Psyhiko; move to Aghia Parsskevi; informed on by collaborators (the Venezia family, according to the demand of the Recanati brothers) [?] [regarding their hiding place]; deportation to Auschwitz by train; rescue of her father because of the shearing of his beard; tattooing of a number on her arm; camp life including labor in the Aussenkommando; labor with her father, brother and sister in the Weberei after receiving "protection" from senior Greeks; plan to explode the crematoria; capture and murder of the participants in the uprising, [as a result of] having the start of the uprising one hour earlier; life in Birkenau; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Life after the war, including marriage and the birth of two children.