Testimony of Shoshana Vera (Levinshtein) Leibovitz, born in Samorin, 1929, regarding her experiences in Samorin, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Augsburg and Muehldorf camps

Testimony of Shoshana Vera (Levinshtein) Leibovitz, born in Samorin, 1929, regarding her experiences in Samorin, the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Augsburg and Muehldorf camps Family background. Annexation to Hungary, 1939; confiscation of her father's store along with the rest of the Jewish stores; abuse of Jews by local residents; her father's preparations to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940; arrival of refugees from Slovakia and their subsequent disappearance, 1942; feelings of anxiety and uncertainty; entry of the Germans, 19 March, 1944; deportation to the Velky Mager Ghetto; draft of her father to labor battalions and his death; transfer to Dunajska Streda Ghetto, June 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; separation from her mother; transfer to Plaszow; labor in quarries and digging; abuse by Goeth of the Jewish female inmates; humane behavior of a Jewish Kapo, Eckstein; transfer back to Auschwitz, August 1944; transfer to Augsburg; labor in an aircraft factory; the humane behavior of several German women; evacuation to Muehldorf, March 1945; hardships en route; liberation by the US Army. Stay in Feldafing; return to Samorin; reunion with a sister and brother; joins Bnei Akiva training; aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1946.