Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places
Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places
Testimony
Testimony of Bracha Ella (Kuttner) Erman, born in Putnok, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Putnok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bremen, Bergen-Belsen and other places
Her family's life in Putnok.
German Army occupation of Putnok [March 1944]; establishment of the Putnok Ghetto [1944]; labor in a block factory; deportation to Auschwitz via Miskolc; selection; transfer to Bremen; camp life including labor clearing rubble; transfer to Oberhuetten Ag [?], with the approach of the front; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, one month later; liberation, one week later.
Typhus disease; hospitalization; move on a train [?]; jumps from the train [?]; move to Salzheim camp [?] on foot; illegally crosses the border into Italy while walking at night over the mountains; move to a station in Bari in the south of Italy; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Mordei Hagetaot" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, July 1948; life in Israel.
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item Id
8050109
First Name
Bracha
Brakha
Ela
Ella
Last Name
Erman
Maiden Name
Kutner
Kuttner
Date of Birth
1922
Place of Birth
Putnok, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives