Testimony of Esther (Krzepicka) Poler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Aschersleben

Testimony of Esther (Krzepicka) Poler, born in Lodz, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Aschersleben From a religious family; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life in the Lodz Ghetto; labor in a straw workshop and a rug workshop; escape with her mother and sister during the “Sperre”, curfew "Aktion"; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, summer 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life until January 1945; transfer to Aschersleben by train; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; labor cleaning buildings; death march; escape and joining a Polish labor camp; liberation by the US Army. Life in a DP camp; wanderings in Germany and Italy with a group of survivors; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Israel, summer 1948.