Testimony of Zipora Pardes, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Mukacevo and Guben, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony of Zipora Pardes, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in Mukacevo and Guben, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen camps Community life. Annexation to Hungary, 1939; Polish refugees tell of the murder of Jews starting 1942; deportation to a ghetto, April 1944; decrees and violence; deportation to a brick factory and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; transfer to Camp C; transfer to Camp A; transfer to Guben camp; death march to Bergen-Belsen, March 1945; diseases, lice; liberation by the British Army. Hospitalized unconscious; move to Sweden to recuparate, May 1945; Swedish Jews’ indifference to the survivors; move to from Malmoe to Goeteborg; attends a Swedish school; joins Aliya Bet; waits in France to make aliya; illegal aliya attempt on the “Kaf-tet b’November” ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.