Testimony of Faina Klaynbard Katz, born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mukachevo Ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps

Testimony of Faina Klaynbard Katz, born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Mukachevo Ghetto and in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrueck and Malchow camps Life before the war; membership in the Bnei Akiva movement, together with her sister Yona; Imposition of restrictions on the Jews, 1938; transfer of Jewish men to labor battalions; murder of Jews; establishment of the ghetto, March-April 1944; life in the ghetto with her sister and mother for about a month; murder of ghetto Jews; establishment of the Judenrat; deportation with her sister, mother, and other Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; murder of her mother upon arrival at the camp; camp life; transfer to forced labor in the kitchen together with her sister; transfer to Ravensbrueck together with her sister and other Jews, December 1944; camp life; transfer to forced labor in a factory; transfer to the Malchow camp together with her sister and other Jews; camp life; typhus; warning from a Jewish [female] doctor; transfer by forced march accompanied by German guards; flight of the German guards; meeting US soldiers; Hospitalization; return with her sister to Mukachevo via Prague with the assistance of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).