Testimony of Tova Shavit, born in Levice, 1928, regarding her experiences in Levice and Hessisch Lichtenau, Auschwitz and Waldsee camps

Testimony of Tova Shavit, born in Levice, 1928, regarding her experiences in Levice and Hessisch Lichtenau, Auschwitz and Waldsee camps Childhood in Levice; her father is a lawyer. Annexation to Hungary, November 1938; arrest of well-to-do Jews, among them her father, under the suspicion of spying and their imprisonment for a year in Hungary, March 1939; her father is interrogated concerning his property; deportation to a ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; separation from her family; transfer to Hessisch Lichtenau; concern of Mueller, the prison guard; for the female inmates; labor in an ammunitions factory; stealing food; deportation to Waldsee camp, January 1945; evacuation to Leipzig, February 1945; air raids; death march; liberation by the US Army, 25 April 1945. Transfer of the female inmates to Wurzen; return to Levice, 1946; illegal immigration with the help of the Bericha organization via Brussels, Marseille; Paris and Prague, winter 1947; deportation to Cyprus; release and aliya to Israel, January 1949.