Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Testimony of Tova (Gittel) Osher Vizel, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, regarding her experiences during deportation to Auschwitz and other camps Her father’s death; leaving school to help support the family; Hungarian regime from 1939; rising antisemitism; German occupation in 1944; expulsion to the ghetto; mother’s illness; transport to Auschwitz; leaving her sick mother behind in the railway car; forcible separation from her younger brother; selection for labor in Gelsenkirchen in building refineries that were bombed; deaths of women prisoners in bombing of the camp; transfer to Sömmerda Weisensee and labor making bombs; death march in April 1945; bombing of column; hiding in the German village of Glauchau; liberation by the Americans; return to Romania; reuniting with her brother; rebuilding her life; aliya to Israel in 1951.