Testimony of Eva (Blumgrund) Goldshmidt, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Bratislava, in Zilina and Sered camps and in Theresienstadt

Testimony of Eva (Blumgrund) Goldshmidt, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Bratislava, in Zilina and Sered camps and in Theresienstadt Life before the war; attending a Neolog school; member of the Gordonia movement; aliya of her brother to Eretz Israel at the age of 13; wearing a yellow badge; imposition of various restrictions; giving away sport equipment and knitted clothing to Germans; the Jewish school is closed; deportation to Zilina camp; release from the camp with the help of her uncle’s connections; life with her uncle and aunt in Bratislava; dismissal of her father from his job; escape of the family to a camp in the Bratislava area; life in the house of an acquaintance Andrei Slosiarik in Bratislava; detained with her parents by the Gestapo and transfer to Sered; life in Sered; separation between men and women; memories of Gisi Fleischmann; transfer by freight train to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt; celebrating Seder night; visit from Red Cross representatives; liberation; typhus; imposition of a lockdown on the ghetto; return to Prague with the help of a Jewish officer; life after the war; reunion with her father who returned from Mauthausen camp; aliya to Israel in 1949; absorption and rehabilitation.