Testimony of Vera (Policer) Wellner, born in Poprad, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Kezmarok, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mengele's clinic, death march to Ravensbrueck and Neustadt Glewe
Childhood in Poprad and Kezmarok; high school studies in Kezmarok, membership in Maccabi Hatzair; Aryanization of her family's business, 1939; decrees; yellow badge; termination of studies, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; living quarters and conditions there; mining coarse sand, transfer to Block 25 together with her mother, and with people who were afterwards sent to the gas chambers; rescue from being...
Testimony of Rivka Bacia, born in Bedzin, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Her family and childhood; taking music lessons at school.
Outbreak of the war, September 1939; deportation to the ghetto; labor in a factory in Bedzin sewing uniforms for the German Army; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1943; separation from her mother and younger sister in a selection; joins the camp orchestra as the personal maid to the conductor, Alma Rose; labor cleaning, taking care of meals and arranging the room; evacuation with the orchestra members to Bergen-Belsen,...
Testimony of Schulamith Silvia (Wagenberg) Khalef, born in Dessau, Germany, 1928, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Aliya of her father to Eretz Israel, 1938; life with her older sister in the Jewish orphanage in Berlin; detention of her mother and her escape to England; move of her sister to aliya training and the witness joins her; deportation and joins a transport to Auschwitz with her sister's aliya training group, April 1943; joins the women inmates' orchestra in camp as a recorder player, under the direction of Alma Rose; disease in camp; protection by the block elder who hides...