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Testimony of Tereza Shtang, born in Murska Sobota, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Murska Sobota Ghetto and Gliewitz and Rechlin camps

Testimony of Tereza Shtang, born in Murska Sobota, Yugoslavia, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Murska Sobota Ghetto and Gliewitz and Rechlin camps Life in Murska Sobota before the war. Annexation to Hungary, 1941-1944; German occupation; decrees, anti-Jewish legislation, confiscation of property; deportation of all the Jews in Murska Sobota and its surrounding areas to the Murska Sobota Ghetto, April 1944; ghetto inmates and the attitude of the Hungarians and Germans towards them; deportation to Auschwitz; entry into the camp and tattooing of numbers; transfer to Gliewitz; labor for nine months in a coal factory; relations between the inmates and their supervisors' attitude; transfer to Ravensbrueck and then to Rechlin, February 1945; labor at an airfield and clearing its surfaces during the day after night-time air-raids; transfer to an unknown destination; escape; wandering along roads; fear of Red Army soldiers. Return to Yugoslavia via Neubrandenburg which was turned from a German POW camp into an Allies camp, with the help of Yugoslavian soldiers; return home and hospitalization due to typhus; rehabilitation; search for relatives; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
3560348
First Name
Tereza
Last Name
Shtang
Date of Birth
1919
Place of Birth
Murska Sobota, Yugoslavia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
6768
Language
Serbian-Croatian
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
30/01/1992
Date of Creation - latest
30/01/1992
Name of Submitter
שנטג, טרזה
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
29
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Audio
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection