Documents du lot Estera Schonfeld
Objet musée
Inventarisnummer : 17120
Titel : Documents du lot Estera Schonfeld
Gecontroleerde naam : Document
Bestemming : Différents documents lié à Estera Schonfeld, dont des correspondances, une étiquette, et la retranscription dactylographiée d'un entretien à Yad Vashem en 1981.
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Verwante personen/organisaties : Schonfeld, Estera
Daten (periode) : 1981 (témoignage Yad Vashem)
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Informations historiques : Description du témoignage de Schonfeld sur le site de Yad Vashem :(https://documents.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&search=global&strSearch=Estera Schönfeld&GridItemId=3558564)
Testimony of Esther Schonfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, regarding her experiences in Limburg, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Life in Medzilaborce before the war; difficult economic situation; move of her family to Belgium.
German occupation, 1940; move to Limburg; help to Jews; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including rescue from a pile of corpses; help to pregnant women; suffocation of newborn babies by nurses during medical experiments; labor in the "Canada" barracks; translates to Hebrew during Josef Mengele's visit to Bergen-Belsen; liberation.
Work in art with the aim of therapy; her paintings are exhibited in a museum near Haifa [The Ghetto Fighters' House?].