Testimony of Esther (Kornblum) Gros, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Szebnie, Auschwitz and Vrchlabi

Testimony of Esther (Kornblum) Gros, born in Rzeszow, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Rzeszow Ghetto, Szebnie, Auschwitz and Vrchlabi Ultra-Orthodox family; life before the war; financially secure family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; abuse of the Jewish population; decrees; expropriation of half of their apartment by Volksdeutsche; deportation to the Rzeszow Ghetto, winter 1941-1942; ghetto life including the deportation of her mother and younger sister; disappearance of her older sister; disease in the ghetto; death of her father on Lag B'Omer, 1942; in hiding to evade deportation; decrease of the ghetto area; selection; deportation to Szebnie, November 1943; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including labor as an assistant to the block elder; transfer to Vrchlabi; camp life including labor in an electric lamps factory; sabotage of the factory's products; help from German inmates; liberation by the Red Army, April 1945. Return to Rzeszow; murder threats; escape to Slovakia on a train; help from Jews; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1949.