Testimony of Shoshana Suzan (Heimler) Golombok, born in Eger, Hungary, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Eger Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck, a death march, Oranienburg and other places

Testimony of Shoshana Suzan (Heimler) Golombok, born in Eger, Hungary, 1918, regarding her experiences in the Eger Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck, a death march, Oranienburg and other places Life before the war; her father is a lawyer. Draft of her father to a labor battalion in the Soviet Union, 15 May 1942; Hungarian Minister of Defense obtains a release for her father; refusal by the military chief of staff to release her father; death of her father in captivity in Kiev; establishment of the Eger Ghetto, 15 May 1944; Eger Ghetto life under the supervision of the Hungarian police; transfer to Kerecsend, June 1944; life in a brick factory; attitude of the Hungarian Gendarmerie and the Gestapo; deportation to Auschwitz, 12 June 1944; camp life including selection by Mengele; separation from her mother; transfer to Birkenau; camp life including labor; receives help from a political inmate named Stanislav Pshebusky; receives help from a German physician inmate named Bernard; distribution of food to Jews by a German inmate named Dr. Schiling; selection by Mengele, August 1944; escape with her sister; transfer to Ravensbrueck; camp life including receiving help from a Norwegian woman named Sylvia Salvzen; selection, 19 August 1944; transfer to Berlin; receives help from two French women who are physicians; transfer to Schoenholcz Reinickendorf; camp life including labor in the Argus Motorwerke aircraft factory; distribution of cereal by an SS man; air-raids on Berlin by the Allied forces, April 1945; death march to Oranienburg, 20 April 1945; transfer to Sachsenhausen; life in a German POW camp under the supervision of the Red Cross organization; liberation by the Red Army, 23 (or 24) April, 1945. Wanderings until Posen; return to Hungary by train.