Testimony of Renia Rivka (Viser) Tikotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben, a death march and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Renia Rivka (Viser) Tikotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben, a death march and Theresienstadt Life in Lodz before the war; education; her father's activities in the Poalei Zion Left; displays of antisemitism in the school. German occupation, September 1939; kidnapping of people to forced labor, including her mother; her father's service in the Polish Army; destruction of synagogues; yellow badge; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life; labor in a tailoring workshop; eats horse meat; activities of the Judenrat and the Jewish police; deportation of Jews to Chelmno; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Aschersleben; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; air-raids on the camp; death march to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army; behavior of Red Army soldiers. Move to Krakow; life in an aliya training "kibbutz" in Czestochowa; move to Prague; move to Deggendorf; move to Mengkofen; move to France; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Latrun" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.