Memoirs of Tzvia (Woller) Elbaum, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau and more Life before the war; move to Krakow, 1937; life in Krakow; attends the Hebrew high school. Life in the Krakow Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; deportation to Plaszow camp together with her father, 13 March 1943; escape of her mother together with her sister to the Aryan side; life of her mother and her sister on the Aryan side of Krakow until the end of the war; life in Plaszow camp; standing for hours at roll calls; search for valuables in the barracks by the Jewish policemen; labor in crushing stones near a road; murder of inmates during a "surprise visit" of the camp commander, Arnon Goeth; demand by the camp commander to perform impossible tasks and punishment of inmates for not meeting the timetable deadline; mass beatings during roll calls and daily executions; transfer to a textile workshop, September 1943; order by the camp commander to dig pits in order to store water in preparation for fires; labor in night shift in addition to the daily work, 1943; selection before the "Aktion" of the elderly; "Aktion" of children and sick people, 14 May 1944; hearing cries of desperation by the mothers of the children; finding children in latrines where they were in hiding; deportation of the father to Mauthausen, 08 August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, October 1944; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including selection; life in the barracks; standing for hours for roll calls and abuse by the person in charge of the barrack; being added to a work group; transfer to a residential barrracks; barrack life; labor in draining mud and algae in the frost and snow; beatings and abuse by the masses; hearing an air-raid siren in the night with the beginning of the air-raids, 17 January 1945; transfer on a death march, 18 January 1945; shooting the inmates during the march; transfer to Loeslau; tranfer in cars without roofs in the snow and without food and drink; transfer to closed train cars in Buchenwald; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; transfer to empty barracks; roll calls including the beating of inmates; high mortality; cessation of the distribution of food; high mortality from typhus; liberation by the British Army; death of inmates from difficulty in digesting rich foods; transfer to the staff quarters. Included in the file: - Summary of the life story of the author and the experiences of her family including the death of her father in Gusen camp and the rescue of her mother and her sister during the war with the help of forged documents.