Testimony of Nelly Simone (Goldberger) Gordon, born in Oradea, (Hungary) Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in various camps and on a death march

Testimony of Nelly Simone (Goldberger) Gordon, born in Oradea, (Hungary) Romania, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, as a forced laborer in various camps and on a death march Childhood in a religious family in Oradea Mare; displays of antisemitism in kindergarten. Deportation to the Oradea Ghetto, 1940; hiding of valuables by her father who underwent torture; deportation to Auschwitz, spring 1944; transfer to Block 32 with her sister; transfer of 300 young women to Lager B and then to Weisswasser to labor in the Siemens factory; labor in an office due to her command of German; stealing of food; transfer to Hornburg; labor in a forest logging trees; sexual abuse by the Germans; transfer on a death march and by train, under shelling, via Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British Army. Work as a translator from English to German and work with Mrs. Montgomery; activity in a unit that obtained food for survivors; travels to Bad Harzburg on behalf of the Red Cross; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; receipt of a uniform and false papers; departure via Brussels and Krefeld, Germany; legal aliya on the ship, "Hachayal Ha'ivri", from Genoa, Italy, to Eretz Israel, 1946.