Testimony of Rivka (Matza) Shaki, born in Kerkira, 1920, regarding her experiences in Kerkira, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen concentration camps and Sassonya camp
Comfortable life in Corfu, a large family with nine individuals; good relations with non-Jewish population; learning in an Italian and Greek school; learning Hebrew, and sewing as a profession; deportation to Athens, 1944; deportation from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the camp registration process; the living conditions, food, living quarters and the selections; escape from the crematoria to the train; deportation to Bergen-Belsen with her sister; transfer to Sassonya camp; labor in a weapons parts factory; deportation by train to Mauthausen; liberation by the US Army in an unconscious state.
Return to Corfu; aliya to Eretz Israel via a detention camp in Cyprus; life on Kibbutz Ein Harod Meuhad.
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3764862
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Rivka
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Shaki
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Matza
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22/02/1920
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Kerkyra, Greece
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11879
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives