Testimony of Shaindl Hershkovitz, born in Dulev, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Hessen camps

Testimony of Shaindl Hershkovitz, born in Dulev, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and Hessen camps Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary; anti-Jewish legislation; entry of the Germans, 19 March 1944; deportation of the Jews from the area, to the Mateszalka Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, mid-May 1944; camp life; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; camp life including labor clearing away rubble; transfer to Hessen; camp life, including labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including typhus; liberation by the British Army. Hospitalization; return home; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1972.