Testimony of Mina Mania Malka Eva (Krakovski) Zeiger, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Hannsdorf and Bernsdorf camps
Testimony of Mina Mania Malka Eva (Krakovski) Zeiger, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Hannsdorf and Bernsdorf camps
Testimony
Testimony of Mina Mania Malka Eva (Krakovski) Zeiger, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Hannsdorf and Bernsdorf camps
Life before the war; religious family; witness attends a Beit Yaakov school and a Polish elementary school.
Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing a yellow badge; restrictions on travel; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Sosnowiec Ghetto; deportation to Hannsdorf; camp life; labor in a clothing factory; rescue by her supervisors during selections, due to her excellence at labor; transfer to Bernsdorf; camp life; labor in a kitchen and other labor assignments; liberation by the Red Army, 1945.
Return to Sosnowiec; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
7290315
First Name
Eva
Khava
Malka
Mania
Mina
Last Name
Tzeiger
Zeiger
Maiden Name
Krakovski
Date of Birth
30/03/1922
Place of Birth
Sosnowiec, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Yiddish
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives