Testimony of Hana Sterlikht, born in Prague in 1930, regarding her experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, in Auschwitz camp and in camps in Germany during 1942-1945

Testimony of Hana Sterlikht, born in Prague in 1930, regarding her experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, in Auschwitz camp and in camps in Germany during 1942-1945 Life in Holice before the war; anti-Jewish legislation in 1939; confiscation of property and valuables; deportation to Theresienstadt, apparently in December 1942; Theresienstadt Ghetto life including the living conditions (overcrowding, hunger, diseases, and so forth); separation between women and men; stay in a children's house in the ghetto; studies; Theresienstadt Ghetto cultural life; participation in the children's opera, "Brundibar"; pneumonia and hospitalization in a children's home; deportations to camps; visit by the Red Cross delegation and improvement in the ghetto's appearance in advance; deportation of her father in September 1944; deportation to Auschwitz camp; selection; her mother is sent to extermination; witness' stay in Auschwitz camp; testimony regarding the extermination of a transport of children; beatings by an SS soldier woman; transfer to the Freiburg labor camp; labor in an aircraft factory; cruel punishments; transfer to Mauthausen camp in March 1945; typhus epidemic; Mauthausen camp life including the daily life; liberation and evacuation by the Red Cross; return to Holice; her stay with a friend of the family; return [restitution] of her family's belongings by friends who had hidden them; move to Prague and resumption of her studies; Zionist aliya training; marriage and aliya to Israel in March 1949; life after aliya.