How I Survived the Holocaust

Mala Tribich was born Mala Helfgott in 1930 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Mala’s family fled eastwards. When they returned, Mala’s family were interned in the ghetto established in her hometown, the first to be established in Nazi-occupied Poland. When the ghetto was liquidated, Mala became a slave laborer until November 1944, when the remaining Jews were deported. Mala was separated from her father and brother and was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After about 10 weeks they were transported in cattle trucks to Bergen-Belsen until the liberation by the British army.