Testimony of Irena Yocheved Gafner née Peskowska, born in Łódź in 1923, about her experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, and Salzweden camps until April 1945

Offspring of an affluent family in Łódź; attends a Jewish Zionist school; war breaks out; home expropriated; witness captured in the street and assigned to cleaning work; sent to the ghetto; mother works at the ghetto offices; father runs a cooking station; witness goes to school in Marysin; embroidery workshop; father captured in an Aktion in 1942; a doctor helps the witness find shelter in a hospital; selection by Hans Biebow; brother and father die in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in A...