Testimony of Lili Liliana (Mulbauer) Gelberman, born in Sovata, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sovata, in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and other places

Testimony of Lili Liliana (Mulbauer) Gelberman, born in Sovata, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Sovata, in the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt and other places Life before the war; religious family. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1944; German occupation, April 1944; wears a yellow badge; deportation to the Targu Mures Ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz on a train; camp life; daily selection; suicides by inmates; fasting on Yom Kippur; large selection, October 1944; transfer in freight cars to Germany; camp life including labor in a tank parts factory; labor in shifts; air-raids on the factory by the Allied forces, March 1945; transfer on a march to outside the camp; life in railroad cars; transfer by train to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army, 08 May 1945; release. Move to Targu Mures by train; receives help from the JDC organization, April 1946; meets aliya emissaries; life on an aliya training "kibbutz"; move to Italy; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; life on Cyprus in camp no. 55; aliya to Israel, 05 July 1948.