Testimony of Bela (Pulvermacher) Teichman, born in Turek, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Kolo, the Turek Ghetto, Kowale Panskie, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Bela (Pulvermacher) Teichman, born in Turek, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Kolo, the Turek Ghetto, Kowale Panskie, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war; antisemitism; escape of refugees from Germany to Turek, 1934. German occupation, September 1939; escape to Kolo; escape back to her family's home; life in Turek including brutal behavior by the Germans; yellow badge; curfew; robbery of Jews' stores by Germans and Poles; kidnapping of Jews to forced labor; abuse of Jews; deportation to the Turek Ghetto, 1939; Turek Ghetto life including labor plucking feathers; activities of the Judenrat; smuggle of food by her siblings; death of her brother from typhus; deportation to Kowale Panskie; receives help from Polish villagers; escape to a village in the Turek region; life in the village including "Aktions"; her family finds a hiding place in the home of a non-Jew, in exchange for payment; escape back to Kowale Panskie; life in Kowale Panskie including break-in of the family's home by Germans; deportation to Poznan with her sisters; camp life including labor in a field; her sister receives beatings, and her sister's death; typhus disease; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including suicide of inmates; transfer in a march, January 1945; transfer to Ravensbrueck; life in Ravensbrueck without labor; transfer to Neustadt Glewe; life in Neustadt Glewe including long roll-calls; abuse; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Return to Turek; life in Turek including antisemitism; move to Lodz; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.