Testimony of Ruth Zahavi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1939, regarding her experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and Ravensbrueck

Testimony of Ruth Zahavi, born in Lodz, Poland, 1939, regarding her experiences in Piotrkow Trybunalski and Ravensbrueck Zionist family; visits by her father in Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto; Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto life including shortages, hunger, cold and "Aktions"; hides in a closet; morning roll-calls; workshops; murder of her grandmother in Treblinka; murder of her father in Buchenwald; death of her older sister in Ravensbrueck; deportation to Ravensbrueck with her mother; camp life including her mother's labor in a laundry; help from women in the barracks to hide the witness, who was a toddler; bribery of the Kapo with diamonds that were smuggled and hidden, in order to obtain food for the witness; infected with tuberculosis disease; severe physical deterioration; liberation by the Red Army. Humane attitude on the part of the [liberating] soldiers; hospitalization by the JDC organization in a convalescence home; aliya to Israel, 1958.