Testimony of Miriam Mania (Blitz) Drenger, born in Krakow, Poland 1921, regarding her experiences in Biezanow, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony of Miriam Mania (Blitz) Drenger, born in Krakow, Poland 1921, regarding her experiences in Biezanow, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life before the war; well-to-do family; Zionist activities in the Scouts movement. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation of craftsmen to the Krakow Ghetto, 1940; expropriation of her family's apartment; selling of jewelry in order to buy food; deportation to Biezanow; camp life; labor laying railroad tracks from Krakow to Auschwitz; labor as the secretary of the camp commander, Miler; barracks life; informed on about hiding silver utensils; transfer for execution in Plaszow; rescue due to help from her cousin and his friend; transfer of the silver utensils to the camp commander; transfer back to Biezanow; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including escapes to the ghetto; escape to the ghetto with her mother on the day of the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, March 1942; deportation with the Jews to Plaszow, including the smuggle of a baby to Poles outside the ghetto; deportation of her father and brother to Gross-Rosen; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the death of her mother; life near a [medical] experiments block; hears crying and shouting; labor cleaning roads; receives clothes; death march to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including the shelling of the camp; liberation by the British Army. Life under the auspices of the Jewish Agency and the UNRRWA organization; meets her husband; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.