Testimony of Pnina Pola (Fuks) Bienental, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Kratzau

Testimony of Pnina Pola (Fuks) Bienental, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Christianstadt and Kratzau Life before the war; attends the Beit Yaakov school; activities in Zionist youth movements; meets Jewish refugees from Germany, 1938; help from the community to the refugees. Outbreak of the war; shelling of Zdunska Wola; escape to villages; escape back to Zdunska Wola; life in Zdunska Wola including decrees; deportation of Jews to forced labor; receives help from German neighbors; deportation to the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, 1940; Zdunska Wola Ghetto life including work in a storeroom sorting and mending clothing; educational activities for young people; objection by the head of the Judenrat, Dr. Lemberg, to the implementation of an "Aktion" against children; hanging of Jews; liquidation of the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, 1942; concentration of the Jews in the cemetery; selection; burial of murdered people; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; Lodz Ghetto life including work in a factory for electrical goods; meets the head of the Judenrat, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski; receives a plot of land to grow vegetables; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including the murder of her sister; transfer with her other sisters to Christianstadt; life in Christianstadt including labor in a clothing workshop; infected with tuberculosis; suffers from pus-filled sores; receives help from a female physician and nurses; transfer to Kratzau; life in Kratzau including labor in a weapons factory; receives clothing and food from POWs; liberation by the Red Army. DP camp life in Italy; studies; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; marriage; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1948.