Testimony of Katalin (Barna) Sztrimber, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1916, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Teleki Ter, Ravensbrueck, Venusberg and Mauthausen

Testimony of Katalin (Barna) Sztrimber, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1916, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Teleki Ter, Ravensbrueck, Venusberg and Mauthausen Life in Budapest with her family; displays of antisemitism; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; financial inability to pay for a ticket to make aliya [to Eretz Israel]; studies; work as a clerk and as a saleswoman; marriage, 1936. Draft of her husband to forced labor; transfer of her husband to the Soviet Union; non-return of her husband; life [in Budapest] including anti-Jewish restrictions and work in odd jobs; German Army occupation of Budapest, spring 1944; death of her father; refusal [by the authorities] to bury her father; receives a Swiss protective passport; life in a protected house, with her sister-in-law; life in the protected house including overcrowding and shortage of food; razzias [round-ups]; capture by Nyilas men, along with her sister-in-law; Nyilas men tear up the Swiss protective passports; deportation by the Nyilas men to a brick factory in Teleki Ter, along with her sister-in-law; transfer to Ravensbrueck; life in Ravensbrueck, including receiving flogging, and shortage of food; transfer to Venusberg near Chemnitz; life in Venusberg including labor in an aircraft factory, and experiencing the cold and shortage of clothing and food; air-raids; transfer to the Revier, the camp hospital after being infected with typhus disease; rescue by her sister [or sister-in-law?]; transfer to Mauthausen for 16 days, including air-raids and shortage of food; camp life including her sister's typhus illness; liberation by the US Army, 06 May 1945. Move to Budapest with help from the JDC, three weeks after the liberation; hospitalization in a hospital; return to Budapest; aliya to Israel via Italy with her family, 1957.