Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp

Testimony of Yocheved Yehudit Hamburger Boxbaum, born in Brzesko, Poland, 1928, regarding the Bochnia ghetto and deportation to the Auschwitz II - Birkenau camp Family background, religious family; studies in a Polish school; life before the war. The outbreak of the war; dropping out of school; great fear of the Germans; deportation to the ghetto; aktions; deportation of the first intelligence personnel; whistleblowing by Jewish policemen on Jews; rumors of camps; construction of bunkers; hiding in hideout during an aktion; exposing the witness' family during the aktion and killing them; the escape of the witness alone from the ghetto; arrival in Bochnia; meeting with her uncle; closure of the Bochnia ghetto; the disappearance of her uncle; residence with a family affiliated with the Judenrat; deportation to the Chyzyny transit camp; excavation work; transfer to Auschwitz; selection; Mengele in selection; entrance to Birkenau; haircuts; tattoo number on hand 66732; back to Auschwitz; residences of German officers with their families in the camp; going to work in a weapons factory outside the camp; the bombings. Liberation; fear of Poles after the war, rumors of murder of Jews; move to Budapest; aliya to Eretz Israel; absorption and rehabilitation.