Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin

Testimony of Mina (Veingarten-Karmi) Pshetitzki, born in Lublin, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in Lublin, Majdanek, Trawniki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Aschersleben and Terezin Zionist, traditional family; activities in the Gordonia movement; witness attends a Tarbut school; displays of antisemitism before the war; meets refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war; anti-Jewish decrees; forced labor in agriculture; "Aktions"; hidden by a Polish neighbor; informed on; disappearance of her father; deportation to Majdanek; labor camp life; labor in a workshop sorting clothing; infected with disease; exposed to physical violence; transfer to a camp next to Trawniki; labor in agriculture; improvement in the conditions; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Aschersleben to an aircraft factory; transfer to Terezin; liberation by the Red Army. Illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Exodus" ship, 1947; deportation to Germany; aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Kedmah" ship, 1948.