Testimony of Hadasa Hinda (Tzudzinovski) Gerstner, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Langenbielau camp, a ghetto and additional camps

Testimony of Hadasa Hinda (Tzudzinovski) Gerstner, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Langenbielau camp, a ghetto and additional camps The immediate family; her parents livelihood; life at home including Shabbat, religious holidays and Pesach; education; Jewish schools and synagogues in the community; youth movements and activities in Hanoar Hatzioni. German occupation, September 1939; escape of the family to Drohobycz; return home; hunger; decrees; draft of her father to forced labor; death of her father from a disease; desecration of the Great Synagogue and burning of the synagogue; Judenrat activities headed by Moshe Merin and Jewish police activities; establishment of workshops and labor cards; arm badges and yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a transit camp; labor of the witness in a metal factory; murder of a relative; deportation of her mother and sister to Auschwitz; confiscation of the family apartment; deportation to a ghetto, spring 1943; separation from her mother before her deportation; activities in a youth movement for the prevention of deportations; deportation to Faulbrueck via Goglin; forced labor; approach of the Red Army and transfer to Langenbielau camp; attitude of the camp Kapo; marchs instead of labor; liberation in Langenbielau, May 1945. Return to Sosnowiec; reunion with her sister; crosses the border to Czechoslovakia and arrest; move to Germany and joins kibbutz aliya training; marriage, 1946; aliya to Israel via Marseilles, 1948; convalescence and absorption.