As Long as I Live and Breathe - The Story of Sara Leicht-Weinstein

Sara (Lili) Leicht was born in 1929 in Oradea in north-western Romania, and lived in nearby Tileagd with her father Ignace (Yom-Tov) and mother Ferenzi Hermina. Her father - a religious teacher and scholar, and a merchant - had six children from his previous wife, who had passed away prematurely. One of his children, Adolf (Erped) fought in the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. Her mother Hermina, worked farming ducks and geese and selling their products - liver and meat - to the wealthier Jews of Oradea, who observed strict dietary laws ("Glatt Kosher"). Sara went to a general public school, and studied religious studies three times a week with the village Rabbi.
In April 1944, a few weeks after the German occupation, Sara's family was deported to the Oradea ghetto and from there to Auschwitz. In May 1944 upon arrival at the camp, Sara was separated from her family, who were sent to be murdered. After being rescued from the gas chambers, she was sent to Fallersleben, where she worked at a weapons factory. With the advance of the Red Army, Sara was transferred to a labor camp in the city of Salzwedel, where she was liberated by the American army. Sara returned to Tileagd and in May 1946, immigrated to pre-state Israel on the illegal immigrant ship, "Max Nordau". With the outbreak of Israel's War of Independence, Sara joined the "Palmach" unit of the then-underground army, fighting with the 6th battalion of the Harel Brigade in Jerusalem. In May 1949 she married Alexander Leicht, and the couple went on to have two children. Sara studied at the WIZO school of nursing and worked as a certified nurse in the pediatric surgery ward and the maternity ward at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
Film length: 27 minutes
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[@ursulageitlinger]

shalom liebe Sarah ich danke dir für deine Offenheit.Ursula Geitlinger

[@SweetHopeCookies]

Sara said that as they pulled into the staging area at the camp it was night and there were so many little lights shining in the darkness. While those lights were ones of despair and death, Sara and those who lived to tell their story remain lights of hope and remembrance in another kind of darkness. May all people of goodwill bear witness to these stories and becomes lights themselves. May we never forget.

[@simonbennatan8257]

Very moving. I ended up here after seen lots of antisemitic comments on many other KZbin videos. I'm afraid to say antisemitism is coming back. Let's see how we can handle it now that we have Israel.

[@ammowalk2862]

Hiya, thank you my sweet Sara, you can't know how good it feels to know the truth. There's so many liars it hurts. Shalom aleichem

[@dolphin087]

Thank you for sharing this story! Was Sara ever able to retrieve the box that her father buried in their garden in Hungary?

[@dianarumboll2963]

Excelente material de testimonio. Profundamente unico y de altisimo valor