Memoirs of Esther (Stern) Michaeli, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps

Memoirs of Esther (Stern) Michaeli, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps 

Fragmenty z mym przezyc w okresie drugiej wojny swiatowej. Rok 1939-1945 

Memoirs of Esther (Stern) Michaeli, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps 

Fragmenty z mym przezyc w okresie drugiej wojny swiatowej. Rok 1939-1945 

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Memoirs of Esther (Stern) Michaeli, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Sosnowiec Ghetto and in Auschwitz and Parschnitz camps Life in the Sosnowiec Ghetto; detention of Jewish males; release of her father from detention due to her asking a German officer to intervene; smuggling fabrics out of the ghetto for sale in exchange for food; concentration of the Jews in the square before a selection; parting from her younger brother before her deportation on a transport to Auschwitz; arrival at the camp and selection in the presence of Mengele; being chosen together with 60 young women for transfer to Parschnitz; camp life; daily death toll of female inmate friends; finding a notice of the upcoming defeat of Germany in her mattress during a search in the barracks; receiving beatings by the German commander for days on end; being kept alive due to the intervention from the factory in which she labored on grounds of her being an essential worker; hospitalized unconscious in a clinic; viewing the inmates who were transferred to the camp on a death march, March 1945; housing the inmates at night in stables; inmates who did not succeed in getting up for the march buried alive by female inmates hand-picked by the concentration camp staff; change in behavior of the concentration camp staff the night before liberation; planting landmines around the camp by the German guards before their escape; liberation by the Red Army, 09 May 1945. Female inmates receive treatment; return to the family home in Sosnowiec; seizure of the family home by Polish neighbors; receiving information regarding the death of her entire family. Memoirs dedicated to the family members who perished: - Parents, Aron and Matla Stern; - Brother, Jeszajahu/Szaja; - Aunt, Adela Skora and her son Chaimek; - Friends, Cyla Wajcman, Andzia Jasna, Hela Neuman, Sala Kaufman, Lena Abramowicz, Sala Neuberg, Fryma Tuchsznajder and Hania Woznica; - Grandmother, Ruchla Skora and her son Abram.