Testimony of Branka (Sachs) Ron, born in 1918 in Lodz, Poland - regarding her experiences in Lodz, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and in the Theresienstadt camp

Testimony of Branka (Sachs) Ron, born in 1918 in Lodz, Poland - regarding her experiences in Lodz, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and in the Theresienstadt camp. Daughter of a traditional Zionist family in Lodz; studies at a Polish school; activity in the Zionist youth movement; outbreak of the war in 1939; the escape of the father and brother to Warsaw; the return of the father and brother; her parents’ death from starvation; work sorting clothes; ill with typhus; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp with younger brother; the brother’s death in the camp; labor in a weapons factory; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army; life in the Landsberg DP camp; marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946; absorption and rehabilitation.