Valeria Iuhas

Testimony of Valeria Juhasz, born in Salgotarjan, Hungary, 1920, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz and her escape from the death march Family in Salgotarjan; attends school; relations with the neighbors; travel by train to Budapest and return on 19 March 1944; help from a non-Jewish acquaintance; closure of the Jews in a ghetto; conditions in the ghetto; deportation in a cattle car to Auschwitz, 06 June 1944; separation from her mother; encounter with Dr. Josef Mengele; conversation with a guard; information about the murder of her mother; shaving of her hair; roll-call; eating in the camp; labor with the block leader; a Gypsy transport that were sent to the gas chamber; evacuation in the direction of Upper Silesia; digging anti-tank trenches; conversation with a guard and discovering his human side; death march of 2,000 women; shooting of women who did not have anymore strength; punishment for being suspected of stealing wheat; arrival at Gruenberg camp; disinfecting clothes against lice; death of her niece during the death march; passing through a Czech village; escape from the death march. Meets an SS officer who had fled at the end of the war; life with farmers in the Sudetenland region; posing as a non-Jew; reunion with her husband; aliya with her husband and two children; starts a family, rehabilitation.