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Testimony of Dvora Edit Platsek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in forced labor in Ujpest, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Berlin-Schoenholz camp

Testimony of Dvora Edit Platsek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in forced labor in Ujpest, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Berlin-Schoenholz camp Life before the war in Rakospalota; attends a non-Jewish school; studies millinery and design; displays of antisemitism; drafted to forced labor; labor in a textile factory for the army in Ujpest; refused to be rescued from deportation in order to stay with her mother; deportation from Bekesmegyer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Ravensbrueck; forced labor in a HASAG factory in Berlin-Schoenholz; transfer from the camp on a death march, mid April 1945; liberation by the Red Army. Return home with her sister; reunion with her father; harassment of her father towards his daughters; marriage; aliya to Israel, December 1996.
item Id
3565671
First Name
Dvora
Edit
Last Name
Plachek
Date of Birth
1924
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hungarian
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
29/07/1997
Date of Creation - latest
29/07/1997
Name of Submitter
PLATSEK EDIT DVORA
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection