Testimony of Sonia (Unikovski) Blitzbau, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and more

Testimony of Sonia (Unikovski) Blitzbau, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and more From a well-to-do family; childhood; attends a Polish school and a Beit Yaakov school; Hanoar Hatzioni activities; good neighborly relations with the Poles and the Volksdeutsche (members of the German minority in Poland); meeting with Jewish refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Zdunska Wola Ghetto; ghetto life including execution of Jews by hanging, robbery of property, shortages, crowding, hunger and informers; private education in the ghetto; rescue attempt by a Volksdeutsche man; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life including work in a kitchen, packing weapons, labor braiding straw [for making shoes], contracting typhus; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including selections, cleaning latrines, abuse of inmates; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including the rescue of 14 young women by a German officer; liberation by the US Army in Neustadt. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.