[Personal report about the surviving in Auschwitz]

The file contains a report by Sima Vaisman a French Jewish doctor, who was being deported on the 20th of January 1944 to Auschwitz. She describes the arrival, the struggle of surviving and her daily life in the camp. She managed to survive working at the hospital in Auschwitz and later starting on the 16th of May in a nearby camp called Brezinki where four million people have died. She describes the constant horror around her, the last days of Auschwitz and the desperate try of the Nazis to evacuate the prisoners and burn the evidence. They got to Germany where they were being sent from one camp to another until they were finally released on the 3rd of May 1945 by American tanks but immediately left alone afterwards. One day later they were saved by Russian soldiers.