Pesia Bodner

Testimony of Pesia Bodner, born in SimleuI, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Marghita Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Thersienstadt camps Life before the war; attends elementary school. Entry of the Hungarians; sanctions against Jews; move to relatives in Marghita; deportation of Jews to a ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including forced labor digging ditches; transfer to forced labor in an ammunitions factory near Dresden; Allied air-raids; evacuation from the camp on trains; transfer to Thersienstadt; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Prague and then to Budapest; return to Simleul; life there; aliya to Eretz Israel via a detention camp in Cyprus, 1948.