Ita Shmulovski

Testimony of Ita Shmulovski, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Communist underground in Budapest, prison in Hungary, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau From a well-to-do religious family; move to Vienna, 1926; attends a mixed school; antisemitic attitude of the teachers; attends a Jewish school; closure of the school; family escape to Budapest, May 1938; her father's illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939. Joins the Communist underground with the onset of the German occupation; hidden by an underground member; escape to Kosice; attempt to join the Slovakian partisans; detention by the Hungarian gendarmerie; life in prison; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to forced labor in an aircraft replacement parts factory in Peterswaldau; typhus; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Budapest; membership in the Communist party; aliya attempt on the ship, "Knesset Israel"; detention in Cyprus, 1946; aliya.