Testimony of Silvia Sala (Barend) Yisraeli, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places

Testimony of Silvia Sala (Barend) Yisraeli, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family. German occupation, September 1939; restrictions on the Jews, confiscation of property and yellow badge; "Aktion" at the square; separation from her mother and brother, September 1942; deportation to the Tarnow Ghetto, October 1942; ghetto life; labor sewing uniforms in the factory for Julius Madritsch , later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Plaszow camp, September 1943; life in Auschwitz; receives information on the crematorium, summer 1944; receives help in food and a place for labor by a Sonderkommando inmate; labor sorting women's clothes; Sonderkommando uprising; hanging of women for helping the uprising; transfer in a death march to Ravensbrueck, January 1945; transfer to Neustadt Glewe; life in Neustadt Glewe; labor in a factory; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Red Army assumes authority; move to Luebeck; life in Luebeck under British occupation; life with an assumed Italian identity; work with the Jewish Agency; help to Jews to illegally cross borders; receives a certificate with the help of Nachum Goldman; aliya to Eretz Israel, August 1947.