Testimony of Masha (Papirnik) Chernowich, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mrozy Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bomlitz and other places

Testimony of Masha (Papirnik) Chernowich, born in Baranowicze, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mrozy Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bomlitz and other places Childhood in Pabianice; increasing displays of antisemitism after 1935. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape of her father in the direction of the Soviet Union with a group of men; German occupation; murder of Jews; identification of Jews in the bread lines by Poles; deportation to Mrozy; life in Mrozy from winter 1940; her father joins the family; return to the Pabianice Ghetto; ghetto life including labor sewing uniforms for the German Army; Judenrat activities; concentration of the Jews in a field in the city, Shavuot (22 May) 1942; murder of Jews unfit for work; deportation of the family to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including labor for the German Army in a shoe factory; deportation of her parents and younger brother during the Spera, autumn 1942; life with a handicapped brother; obtains food in exchange for medicines; hides her brother during an "Aktion"; steals inflammable material from her place of work; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1944; camp life; transfer to Bomlitz; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; transfer to Elsnig; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer from the camp; air-raid on the deportation train and the deaths of approximately 1000 female inmates; death march under the supervision of a German civil militia; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Lodz; aliya to Israel, 1949.