Testimony of Pnina (Klein) Katz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, the Grodno vicinity, on a death march and in Landsberg

Testimony of Pnina (Klein) Katz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Sevlus Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, the Grodno vicinity, on a death march and in Landsberg Life before the war. Re-annexation to Hungary 1939; abuse of the rabbi; deportation of Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Ukraine, 1941; establishment of the Sevlus Ghetto, May 1944; ghetto life including deportation to Auschwitz with her family, June 1944; camp life with her sister; attitude of the block supervisor towards the inmates; birth of a baby in the block; meeting with Czech families; meeting with Gypsies from Paris; orchestra performances; witness spends a night near the crematorium; deportation to Stutthof, August or September 1944; life in Stutthof including cruelty of a female Jewish Kapo; deportation to a camp in the vicinity of Grodno, September 1944; camp life including cruelty of Ukrainian guards; inmate mortality from beatings and starvation; death march to Landsberg, March 1945; life in Landsberg including the shooting of female inmates by a Ukrainian guard and the guard's laughter; knowledge from a Ukrainian guard that the shooter's name is Ivan Demjanjuk; her sister's death; liberation by the Red Army, spring 1945. Return to Sevlus; life in Sevlus with her husband as people refused permission to make aliya to Israel; aliya to Israel, 1972.