Testimony of Sara (Fisher) Tesler, born in Viseul de Jos, Romania, 1926

Testimony of Sara (Fisher) Tesler, born in Viseul de Jos, Romania, 1926 From an Orthodox family. Hungarian occupation, 1938; restrictions on Jews; ban on school attendance; Aryanization of businesses; confiscation of land; murder of her Zionist brother; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Viseul de Jos Ghetto; crowding; lack of food; deportation to Auschwitz; murder of her mother; forced labor; dragging of rocks; meeting with her sister; punishment by beatings and food deprivation for three days; hiding a ring in her mouth; help from her sister; selection; transfer of 100 young women to Germany for forced labor; improvement in conditions; labor in a defense factory; community service labor and distribution of coal; humane treatment by the German commander; hanging of those escaping from the camp; typhus; approach of the Allied forces; forced march of the female inmates; air-raids; the guards flee. Arrival at a DP camp; SS guards impersonating refugees; Hapoel Hamizrachi activities; aliya to Israel, 1948; absorption and rehabilitation.