Sara Konski

Testimony of Sara (Peterkovski) Konski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen and Bergen-Belsen From a financially secure family; witness's father is a fruit merchant; witness's mother owns a confectionary store; attends a Polish elementary school. German occupation; confiscation of the family store, September 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life including labor supplying vegetables, sewing, weaving carpets; disease; in hiding during "Aktions"; deportation to Auschwitz, 23 August 1944; disappearance of her mother; transfer to Bremen; camp life including labor cleaning streets; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, April 1945; liberation by the British Army. Hospitalization; move to Feldafing DP camp; reunion with her father and brother; move to Frankfurt; marriage, October 1945; her daughter's birth; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Pan York", 23 December 1948; life in Haifa.