Testimony of Chava (Eva) Liber Benkel, born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland, regarding the Lodz ‎Ghetto, Auschwitz and other camps

Childhood in Lodz; antisemitism before the war; German conquest and occupation in September 1939; the yellow star; burning of synagogues; liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in April 1940; starvation; arrival of refugees; constant struggle for survival; the Judenrat; deportations to Chelmno in January 1942; typhus epidemic; השפרה in September 1942; Jewish police; working in various workshops ("ressortes"); ghetto songs; deportation to Auschwitz in summer 1944; separation from family; transfer to Langenbielau a day later; transfer to Hundsfeld Breslau several days later; work in a munitions factory; starvation; helping each other; air-raids and clearing the ruins in Breslau; death march in January 1945 to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen after a week and from there to Bergen Belsen; starvation; typhus; liberation by the British on 15 April 1945; rehabilitation after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949.