Testimony of Pnina Perel (Moskovich) Handelsman, born in Rona De Mijloc, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Rona De Mijloc Ghetto, Auschwitz, a camp in the north of Silesia and a death march

Testimony of Pnina Perel (Moskovich) Handelsman, born in Rona De Mijloc, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Rona De Mijloc Ghetto, Auschwitz, a camp in the north of Silesia and a death march Life before the war; Orthodox religious family with many children; her father was a shoemaker; witness attends a Romanian school. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions including obligation to attend school on Shabbat, and Aryanization; ban on travel on trains; physical abuse including the tearing off and shearing of beards of Jews; offer of a hiding place to her family by Romanian neighbors; refusal by her father (to go into hiding); deportation to the Rona De Mijloc Ghetto, Rona De Mijloc Ghetto life including deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life including the murder of her parents and younger siblings; transfer to a camp in the north of Silesia; camp life including labor digging trenches; approach of the Red Army front; death march with her sister and her sister's illness; dysentery; hospitalization and receives help from the Red Cross organization; life in Prague including life in a villa. Return to Romania; life in Romania including her reunion with two siblings; selling of possessions; joins the Agudat Israel movement; aliya training; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Israel" ship, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.