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Testimony of Zipora Glick, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Soemmerda

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Testimony of Zipora Glick, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Sighet, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Soemmerda Ultra-Orthodox family; learns in a "heder" and attends a Romanian elementary school. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; exile of Jews who are not Hungarian citizens to Poland; exemption of her family from the exile due to her father being wounded in World War I; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto; exits the ghetto to purchase food and smuggle the food into the ghetto; concentration in a room in the synagogue, in the second "Aktion"; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer of the [family's] four sisters to a barracks in camp in the first selection; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; camp life including forced labor unloading blocks in a port and in oil refineries; liquidation of the camp; transfer to Soemmerda; labor in a weapons factory; death march; liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Sighet; aliya to Israel, 1962.
item Id
6994335
First Name
Tzipora
Zipora
Last Name
Glick
Glik
Date of Birth
16/04/1928
Place of Birth
Sighet, Romania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
10/02/08
Date of Creation - latest
10/02/08
Name of Submitter
Glick Zipora
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection