Testimony of Sidonia (Hersch) Ozerovitz, born in Dej, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Dej, the Bungar River, Auschwitz, Vainode camp, Dundanga camp and other places

Testimony of Sidonia (Hersch) Ozerovitz, born in Dej, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Dej, the Bungar River, Auschwitz, Vainode camp, Dundanga camp and other places Life before the war; religious family; persecution of Jews. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; detention and torture of her grandfather due to his helping a refugee from Poland; eviction from homes and concentration of the Jews in the Bungar forest, May 1945; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; selection; deportation with 5,000 inmates to Riga; life in Dundanga camp, Vainode camp and Kaiserwald camp including labor camouflaging ammunition crates from air-raids; transfer in a death march to Liebau camp; shooting of the inmates during the march; life in Stutthof; transfer by ship to camps in the Danzig area; life in Guttau camp and digging anti-tank trenches; contracts pneumonia; selection of sick; 200 female inmates without shoes do not perform labor; evacuation of the camp; transfer in a death march with the approach of the Red Army; murder of 160 women who did not perform labor outside of the camp; finds a hiding place. Receives medical attention by the Red Army; transfer to a POW camp near Bialystok; return to Dej, August 1945; joins aliya training; aliya to Israel, 1950; her son is killed in action during his IDF service, 1975.