Testimony of Lea-Helena Holitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Glogow camp and a death march

Testimony of Lea-Helena Holitz, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Glogow camp and a death march Hungarian occupation of northern Transylvania and abuse of Jews, 1940; deportation of non-Hungarian citizens to Ukraine, 1941; draft of her brother to labor battalions; concentration and deportation of Jews of Satu Mare and the Satu Mare area in the Satu Mare Ghetto, April-May 1944; humiliating physical examinations by gendarmes in the Talmud Torah Synagogue in order to search for jewelry; suicide of physicians; calming speech by Dr. Kobri of the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz, Shavuot 5704-1944; life in Lager C, block 15; sleeps on the floor; distress and crying in the block; cruelty of the block elder Mrs. Volk and her daughter Rosinka; labor with her sister in the Hofkommando and Scheissekommando; finds a one day old baby girl in the garbage; deportation of Jews to the crematorium; details about Irma Grese; life in block 14; details about the block elder Gabi; heroism of a woman named Ruchele in the Zahlappel, and her suicide; hanging of young Jewish women; prayer and fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer of approximately 200 women inmates to Glogow, September 1944; details about the camp commander and other SS men; flogging of girls who try to smuggle potato peels; evacuation of the camp, January 1945; death march without food and wanderings en route; sleeps in stables and barns; death of hundreds of women from starvation, freezing and exhaustion; arrival to Volary, April 1945; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Humane attitude of the Czechs toward the Muselmanns; hospitalization with her sister; death of her sister; return to Satu Mare; aliya to Israel, 1950.