Testimony of Martha (Klein) Goldberg, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Gutau and a death march

Testimony of Martha (Klein) Goldberg, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Gutau and a death march Childhood in a Zionist home; her father is active in the Blau-Weiss youth movement. German occupation, 15 March 1939; decrees, closure of schools; yellow badge; help given to Jewish refugees from the Sudetenland; deportation to Theresienstadt, 1943; hospitalization; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, December 1943; camp registration process; life in the family camp; pretends she is 16 years old; transfer to labor in forests near Stutthof with a group of women; labor building defense trenches in Gutau; evacuation to a death march, January 1944; return to Gutau; her mother's illness; escape of the Germans and entry of the Soviet Army. Help from the local population for the sick; travel to a military hospital in the Soviet Union with her mother and other women; work in the Syzran hospital; difficulties in leaving the Soviet Union; receives an exit permit with two other young women, but without her mother, when the Czech Embassy intervenes; move to the area where the German POWs are located in Frankfurt an der Oder; move to Prague; her mother joins her; aliya to Israel, 1949.