Testimony of Tova (Profesorski) Forst, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz, Peterswaldau and other places

Testimony of Tova (Profesorski) Forst, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Bedzin, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz, Peterswaldau and other places Religious family; joins the Hapoel organization; financial assistance to her parents. German occupation, September 1939; assumes an Aryan identity; help to her family in hiding; capture, January 1940; deportation to a camp in Czechoslovakia; camp life including laundry labor; help from Czechoslovakians; deportation to Gleiwitz, 1941; camp life including labor cleaning; deportation to Auschwitz, 1942; camp life including labor in agriculture; deportation to Peterswaldau, 1943; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; help from a guard; liberation, May 1945. Return to Bedzin; move to Munich; joins aliya training; failed aliya attempt and deportation to Germany, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1948.