Testimony of Bracha (Indig) Lazar, born in Reghin, Romania, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Bistrita Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Bracha (Indig) Lazar, born in Reghin, Romania, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Bistrita Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen-Belsen Poor, religious family with many children; witness' one-armed father lacks a profession; Bnei Akiva activities; marriage; birth of her daughter. Draft of her husband to a labor camp; earns a livelihood by selling fruit; life using a false identity; work in a restaurant; detention; deportation to the Bistrita Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; camp life including meeting a female cousin and two of her sisters; murder of her mother and her daughter; transfer to Plaszow, August 1944; camp life including labor removing stones; transfer to Neustadt; camp life including labor in a bomb factory; approach of the Red Army front; transfer on foot to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including typhus; death of her eldest sister; liberation by the British Army, April 1945. Return home; reunion with her husband; life in Italy; help from UNRRA; birth of a daughter; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Kadima", 1948; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.