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Group testimony of Sári Indig, born in Bedőháza, Czechoslovakia, 1922, Sári Rézműves born in Taracköz, Czechoslovakia, 1927, and Regina Fuchs born in Sándorfalva, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding their experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gelsenkirchen and Essen camps and more

Group testimony of Sári Indig, born in Bedőháza, Czechoslovakia, 1922, Sári Rézműves born in Taracköz, Czechoslovakia, 1927, and Regina Fuchs born in Sándorfalva, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding their experiences in the Mátészalka Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gelsenkirchen and Essen camps and more Deportation to the Mátészalka Ghetto; robbery of possessions by the Hungarian gendarmes; ghetto life for four weeks; being subjected to abuses and beatings; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life on the way in a train car together with 75 other people; arrival in the camp [selection]; disinfection and transfer to the Block; camp life; roll call; transfer to Gelsenkirchen, August 1944; camp life; living in a tent; labor in clearing rubble; transfer to Essen camp after a short time; camp life; living in a barrack; labor in an ammunitions factory; receiving fair treatment at the place of labor; being subjected to air-raids including air-raids on the barracks; receiving a daily ration of soup and a quarter loaf of bread; labor in clearing rubble; suffering from lice; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, March 1944; life on the march for one day; transfer on the same day in freight cars; life in the trains cars for nine days; camp life; labor in a weaving workshop; shortage of water; hostile treatment; mortality of inmates; escape of the SS soldiers; liberation by the British Army, 15 April 1945. Interviewer: Lilly Blau; Note: According to the upper title they were in the Munkács Ghetto.
item Id
3545503
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
1936
Language
German
Record Group
O.15 - Collection about Hungary ("Joint" and Jewish Agency, Budapest)
Sub-Record Group
O.15 E
Date of Creation - earliest
27/07/1945
Date of Creation - latest
27/07/1945
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
2
Interview Location
HUNGARY
Connected to Item
O.15 E - Testimonies collected by the National Relief Committee for Deportees in Hungary (DEGOB)
Form of Testimony
Written testimony