Testimony of Leah Agnes Gramse, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, Krakau Plaszow, Kaufering and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony of Leah Agnes Gramse, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding deportation to Auschwitz, Krakau Plaszow, Kaufering and Bergen-Belsen camps Family background, religious family; residence in the village; her father's work at the village flour mill; anti-Semitism before the war; good relations with local neighbors. A change in attitude after Hitler came to power; studies in a Jewish school; anti-Jewish legislation since 1943; property robbery; prohibition and Restrictions; enlistment of her brother and uncle to labor troops; the death of her uncle in the labor troops; entry of German soldiers into Hungary, March 1943; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; selection; staying with her sister and mother; distribution of postcards to fill in when they are required to register that they have arrived at Walhause and everything is good with them, a request from them to send it to relatives remaining in Hungary; arrangements; tattoo number on hand A-20461; disappearance of a prisoner from the formation; selection; transfer with mother, aunt and sister to a Plaszow labor camp; work in moving planks and stones; approaching the front; transfer by trains, August 1944; arrival in Auschwitz; approaching the front; transfer by trains; passing through the train station in Linz; transfer to the Kaufering camp; forestry work; approaching the front; transfer by trains; arrival in Bergen-Belsen; harsh conditions; mass death; dysentery; typhus; lack of food distribution at all, April 1944; death of her aunt and sister. Liberation; hospitalization; death of her mother; transfer to Helsingborg, Sweden for medical treatment; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.