She left Poland on forged papers with a group of other refugees from Łódź. Īfter the liberation she returned to Łódź in the spring of 1945, at the age of 17, only to find her entire world of human relations completely wiped out, at which time she decided to emigrate to Palestine. We were nothing but living skeletons, unable to lift the shovelfuls of heavy soil above our heads, let alone work at the speed demanded of us.
Upon the "liquidation" of the Ghetto Zyskind was deported to Auschwitz in August 1944, at the age of 16 (her inmate number was 55091), and thence to the Mittelsteine Nazi concentration camp, 17 kilometres to the north-west of Kłodzko ( Ger., Glatz), the latter being then an all-female subcamp of the Gross-Rosen, and subsequently to the Grafenort Nazi concentration camp, 27 kilometres away (12 km south of Kłodzko), where at the end of the War the hundreds of prisoners held there (virtually all Jewish women deported from the Łódź area) were worked at a murderous pace building trenches in the Nazis' frantic attempts to fortify their retreat against the advancing Soviet forces - and where Zyskind concluded that she would not be able survive her wartime ordeal. She and her father mutually supported each other during the following years, successfully evading arrest and deportation, until he died during the Passover of 1943. Her mother, who endured the ensuing privations with uncommon tact and cheerfulness, died the same year. Within three months of the occupation the town's residents of Jewish origin were required to move into a newly designated Ghetto, which was subsequently declared off limits to outsiders on 8 February 1940 and sealed to the outside world on. At the age of 12 she saw her world crushing down around her after the Nazis invaded her town on 8 September 1939.
(At least on some occasions, Zyskind will spell her maiden name "Sala Plagier": see External links below.) Zyskind's childhood in Łódź was a very happy one, as she was swaddled in love and support from family members. Sara Zyskind was born in Łódź to the family of Anschel (Anszel) Kalman Plager (1897–1943), a native of Drohobycz, and his wife Mindla, née Biederman (1900–1940), who came from a well-known family of Łódź industrialists.
An unidentified girl child works in the paper factory in the Łódź Ghetto
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