Testimony of Bracha (Lesh) Gilai, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Berehovo, Budapest and camps

Testimony of Bracha (Lesh) Gilai, born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Berehovo, Budapest and camps Her family; performances as a child as an actress in the Beitar movement. Displays of antisemitism with the annexation of the area of south Carpathian-Ruthenia to Hungary; detention in a prison in Budapest with her family; return to Berehovo; hiding refugees from Poland; German occupation, April 1944; deportation to a ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp registration process; labor; inmates' orchestra; appears as a singer in her block and receives food in exchange; evacuation of the camp, January 1945; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; her sister's death; liberation by the British Army, April 1945. Typhus; hospitalization; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; education in the DP camp; aliya to Eretz Israel via Marseilles on the "Champollion" ship, 1946.