Necha Neli Mendelson

Testimony of Necha Neli (Goldstein) Mendelson, born in Sarbesti, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Berbesti, Sighet, Auschwitz, a death march and Bergen-Belsen Large religious family. Outbreak of the war; decrees and the family's livelihood is hurt; deportation to Berbesti, 1944; ghetto life including life in a granary; transfer to Sighet; deportation to Auschwitz, November 1944; camp life including labor knitting and spinning thread for army uniforms; death march to Bergen-Belsen, late 1944; liberation by the Allied forces, April 1945. Hospitalization in Norrkoeping; convalescence; return to Berbesti, late 1946; locates her father and relatives; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1951.