Rakhel Shlomovitz

Testimony of Rakhel Shlomovitz, born in Sighet, 1923, regarding her experiences in Sighet, the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, Budi, Bergen-Belsen and a death march Her childhood in a religious family. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; deportation of her father to a forced labor camp in Debrecen; confiscation of the family business and continuing to work there; German occupation; German soldiers live in their home; establishment of the ghetto; the Germans' attitude; implementation of searches by Hungarian gendarmes; calming messages from the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz; beatings by the Room Elder (Stubenaelteste); going to forced labor on foot; hanging of a female inmate captured during an attempted escape; riot during the explosion of the crematorium, October 1944; transfer to Budi; labor trimming and cutting seedlings; receives help from German female prisoners and then beatings from Jews for doing so; death march; humane behavior of a German guard; continuing to Bergen-Belsen in train cars; typhus. Convalescence in Sweden after the liberation; marriage in Czechoslovakia; aliya to Israel, 1949.