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Memoirs of Jeanette Janka (Berger) Nagel, about her experiences in Trnava, and the Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt Glewe camps

Memoirs of Jeanette Janka (Berger) Nagel, about her experiences in Trnava and in the Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt Glewe camps Childhood in Ardanovce; family moves to Trnava; witness holds a white-collar job; Jews persecuted from late 1930s on; witness sent to the Patronka camp; witness encounters sister, Irene, in Patronka; sent on to Auschwitz; forced labor; diseases; witness and sister, Irene, work in camp offices, including the Politische Abteilung from July 1942 on; records transports and prisoners in Auschwitz; air raids on Auschwitz from 1944 on; records of shipment and prisoners destroyed toward eend of 1944; women prisoners sent on death march on January 18, 1945 and taken on foot and by train to Ravensbrück and thence to Neustadt Glewe; camp police flee on May 2, 1945; American forces liberate the area; witness and sister return to Trnava; reports about survivor of sister, Helen; witness joins Helen and members of her family in Topoľčany; witness marries the Holocaust survivor Eugen Janko Nagel; witness and husband emigrate to Australia in July 1948; they settle in Sydney and build a family; sister, Irene, reaches Sydney; life in Australia.
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15299596
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Memoirs
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12617
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English
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O.33 - Testimonies, Diaries and Memoirs Collection
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Roland Nagel
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11
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O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust
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Written testimony