Testimony of Jafa (Marmur) Levi, born in Toplita, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Toplita Ghetto, Auschwitz and Malchow

Testimony of Jafa (Marmur) Levi, born in Toplita, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Toplita Ghetto, Auschwitz and Malchow Life before the war; relations with the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish restrictions; receives help from Romanian neighbors; deportation to the Toplita Ghetto; Toplita Ghetto life; robbery of Jewish property by Hungarians; deportation of men to forced labor; deportation of young Jews to camps in Ukraine; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including receiving help and support from her older sister; meets female cousins, her uncle's daughters; physical labor outside; transfer to Malchow; life in Malchow including labor in a weapons factory; keeping clean; receives help from Yugoslavian and French POWs; end of the war; the Germans flee; liberation by the US Army. Arrival of the Red Army to the camp; return to Toplita; aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Israel" ship, 1947.