Luba Elbaum was born on January 10, 1923 in Lublin, Poland. When the war broke out she worked with her family for the Germans. While her family was taken to the ghettoes in Lublin and Bełżyce, Luba worked on a farm for the Germans. In 1941 she was deported to Budzyn. A year later, Luba was deported to Płaszów for work detail, then to Auschwitz. In 1944, she was transported to Bergen-Belsen where she was selected along with 300 other girls to be deported to Aschersleben to work. Luba was then forced on a six-week death march to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia where she was liberated from on May 8, 1945.
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