Survival of a spirit
Memoirs of a Jewish woman (b. 1923) from Horchheim, Germany. Her father, a Dutch Jew, died in 1935. In 1936 she was sent to live with relatives in Amsterdam. After the German occupation, she worked as a slave laborer at an Amsterdam clothing factory. She was later sent to the Vught internment camp where she worked in a fur factory and a Philips electronics factory. From there she was sent to Auschwitz (briefly) and to Reichenbach, Germany, to work in an electronics factory. After it was destroyed by Allied bombing, she was sent to Porta Westfalica (a camp under the jurisdiction of Bergen-Belsen) where she worked in the Hammer-Werk electronics factory, and then to Beendorf where she worked at manufacturing guidance systems for V-2 rockets. After this installation was destroyed by Allied bombing, she was sent to Hamburg-Eiderstadt to dig tank traps. She was liberated in May 1945 under the auspices of the Swedish Red Cross, while still under SS guard. After the war she settled in the U.S. vi, 122 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Salier, Eva, 1923-
- NIOD Bibliotheek
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- ocm32773248
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
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