Testimony of Karmela (Reichman) Gor, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, Auschwitz, Unterluess and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony of Karmela (Reichman) Gor, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding her experiences in a ghetto, Auschwitz, Unterluess and Bergen-Belsen camps Good relations between the Jews and the Christian population before the war. Hungarian occupation; deterioration of relations and economic conditions; German occupation; deportation of Jews to two ghettos and their concentrartion in two brick factories; coordination by the Jews to supply food and help to the Jews in the ghettos and the brick factories; help to smuggle two children out of the ghetto and to transfer the children to Hungary, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in the last transport , summer 1944; selections; rescue of her sister; because of this act, people were shot and hanged in Birkenau; transfer of approximately 1,000 women inmates to Unterluess; labor paving roads, logging trees and in a weapons factory; camp life, with relatively good conditions; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British Army, with her sister. Move to Sweden; work as a translator, counselor and Hebrew teacher for child Holocaust survivors; aliya attempt on the "Oloa" ship, 1946; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; enlists in the Haganah; taken captive by the Egyptians in the battle for Nitzanim.