Testimony of Ella Weiss, born in Sighet, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Ella Weiss, born in Sighet, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Bergen-Belsen Childhood in a religious family. Hungarian occupation, 1940; refugees from Poland and Czechoslovakia; deterioration of the economic and security situation; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto, Pesach (08 April), 1944; mutual help; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Shavuot (28 May), 1944; selections; help from the female physician and the Blockalteste; religious holidays in the camp; death march to Bergen-Belsen, January 1945; hunger; total exhaustion; liberation by the British Army, April 1945. Move to Sweden, physical and emotional recovery; aliya to Israel, 1956.