Testimony of Weiss Klemfner Lea born in Mukacevo Czechoslovakia 1928.
Testimony of Weiss Klemfner Lea born in Mukacevo Czechoslovakia 1928.
Testimony
Testimony of Lea Lili (Klemfner) Weiss, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Proskau Ueber Oppeln area
Life in Mukacevo before the war; attends a Czechoslovakian school.
German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto, April 1944; Mukacevo Ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau on a train, May 1944; camp life including labor digging bunkers; death march, January 1945; life during the march including the murder of her sister; escape in the area of Proskau Ueber Oppeln, March 1945.
Return to Mukacevo, April/May 1945; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; life in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.
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item Id
6790300
First Name
Lea
Lili
Last Name
Vais
Weiss
Maiden Name
Klamper
Klemfner
Date of Birth
1928
Place of Birth
Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives