Testimony of Klara (Kolman) Neuman, born in Oradea, Romania, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Horneburg, Porta and Buchenwald

Testimony of Klara (Kolman) Neuman, born in Oradea, Romania, 1915, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Horneburg, Porta and Buchenwald From a large religious family; her father is a cantor and leader in the community; attends junior and high school; taught in Romanian; language at home is Hungarian; Hamizrachi activities; riots during the Cuza regime; burning of Torah scrolls. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews including a demand that money and gold be handed in, from 1943; establishment of the Oradea Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, Shavuot (28 May) 1944; selection by Josef Mengele; transfer of most of her family to the gas chambers; remains with one sister; transfer with 289 young women to Horneburg, September 1944; camp life incliding labor in a Philips factory; flogged for stealing food; transfer on foot to Porta; camp life including labor in a subterranean factory; escape; hiding under a railroad car; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including typhus and lice; liberation on the German-Danish border. Dysentery; move to Denmark; move to Sweden on a Bernadotte program with help from the Red Cross; life in Sweden with help from the JDC; move to Budapest; locates her sisister and their reunion; aliya to Israel, 1957.