Testimony of Sara (Fruchter) Schwartz, born in Poienile De Sub Munte, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Poienile De Sub Munte, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen and Sweden

Testimony of Sara (Fruchter) Schwartz, born in Poienile De Sub Munte, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Poienile De Sub Munte, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen and Sweden Her childhood in a religious family. Hungarian Army occupation of Poienile De Sub Munte, 1940; separation from her older siblings who remained in the territory of Romania; German Army occupation of Poienile De Sub Munte, March 1944; concentration of the Jews; deportation of the Jews to the Viseul De Sus Ghetto; Viseul De Sus Ghetto life, for several weeks; deportation to Auschwitz with her parents; camp life with her mother; transfer to labor in a salt mine, summer 1944; transfer with the weak girls to labor in a kitchen; transfer to Braunschweig; camp life including labor clearing rubble; death march to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; liberation. Move to Sweden with a group of women, organized by Count Bernadotte; life in Sweden until 1948; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel.