Testimony of Yehudit Ita Perel (Zev) Eliash, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Teplitz Schoenau and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Yehudit Ita Perel (Zev) Eliash, born in Targu Mures, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Teplitz Schoenau and Theresienstadt Life before the war; family with many children; her father was a Yiddish teacher in a Jewish school; aliya of siblings to Eretz Israel with the Hashomer Hatzair movement, 1938; witness attends a Jewish elementary school; attends a French high school. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; expulsion from the French high school; attends a Jewish school; transfer of men to forced labor, 1943; deportation to the Targu Mures Ghetto in a brick factory, May 1944; Targu Mures Ghetto life including deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including the murder of her mother and younger siblings; life in the children's barracks; labor in cleaning; transfer to Teplitz Schoenau; camp life including labor in bomb factories; sleeps in beds and receives blankets, clothing and food; receives food daily from a French POW; receives help from a labor supervisor of the German Army; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by the US Army and the Red Army. Move to Gastein; life in Gastein including marriage; receives help from the JDC organization; aliya to Israel, 1948.