Testimony of Chana Szinai, born in Tiszalok, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Simapuszta ghetto; in the Birkenau camp, and in forced labor camps
Childhood recollections and family background in Tiszalok; studies in a Jewish elementary school; displays of antisemitism in 1939.
Her father's being forced to enlist in labor battalions; concentration of the Jews in the Simapuszta ghetto with the entry of the Germans in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the children's block; roll calls; harsh treatment from Irma Greze; life in the camp; selections; receiving disk number 7981 in Birkenau; deportation to Horneburg; work in an ammunitions factory; every day life in the camp; songs they sang in the camp; the beatings; deportation by train to Bendorf; work in a ammunitions factory; how her body swelled up due to the saltiness of the environment; worsening of conditions; deportation to Legenhorn-Ochsenzoll as the front approached; the short sojourn in these camps and work in the ammunition factories; deportation by train to the forests near Buchenwald; the shooting; digging pits.
The transfer to Sweden within the prisoner exchange framework initiated by Folke Bernadotte; the warm and encouraging attitude of the people in Sweden; her reaction to the assassination of Folke Bernadotte; aliya to Israel in 1949; adjusting to life in Israel; the ramifications of the Holocaust.
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3747747
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Chana
Elvira
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Sinai
Szinai
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10/03/1925
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Tiszalok, Hungary
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Testimony
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11562
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives