Amalia Nemesh

Testimony of Amalia Nemes, born in Targu Lapus, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in Riga and Germany Life in the Jewish community of Targu Lapus, Romania; studies and religious lessons in school; restrictions on Jews, 1940; her brother is sent to a labor camp; relations with non-Jewish neighbors after the Hungarian occupation; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; deportation by wagons to the Dej Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; journey in train wagons; separation from her parents; encounter with Dr. Mengele; life in Auschwitz; spending a whole night in a gas chamber, which was not activated; travel by train to Riga; forced labor; bartering in Riga; march on foot; shooting of a girl by an SS soldier; deportation to Stutthof; food in the camp; system of torture; conversations with women about food that they were dreaming about; travel by train to Leipzig camp; camp life; forced labor in an aircraft factory; collective punishment because of the disappearance of one of the inmates; destruction of the factory in the air-raids; marching during the air-raids; liberation by the US Army. Concentration of former prisoners on the banks of the Elbe River; carrying sacks of sugar in Wurzen; escorted by a Jewish-Russian officer return home and reunion her older brother; marriage, January 1946; opening a shop in Dej; aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus; starting a family.