Testimony of Tova Kinstler, born in Sered, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Sered and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Tova Kinstler, born in Sered, Czechoslovakia, 1897, regarding her experiences in Sered and Theresienstadt Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; attitude toward the Jews; establishment of the Hlinka Guard movement, late 1941; pogroms by local residents under the auspices of the Hlinka Guard, until mid-1942; establishment of a labor camp; establishment of a Jewish public kitchen and work as a chief cook; deportation of women to camps on the first transport of women, February 1942; deportation of young men to Auschwitz, 19 March 1942; deportation of men to Majdanek via Lublin, 20 March 1942; concentration with the Jews in a camp near Sered, 11 April 1942; camp life including the large "Aktion", August 1943; coordination of young people in the camps and they join the partisans, early 1944; German occupation; deportation to Theresienstadt, March 1945; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Sered; aliya to Israel, 1950; life in Israel.