Testimony of Irina (Fried) Faur, born in Cristelec, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Szilagy Somlyo, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Duderstadt and other places

Testimony of Irina (Fried) Faur, born in Cristelec, Romania, 1926, regarding her experiences in Szilagy Somlyo, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Duderstadt and other places From a traditional, partially Zionist family; work in the family grocery store; elementary education; displays of antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation. Re-annexation to Hungary; attitude towards the Jews; studies and work as a professional knitter in Oradea Mare, 1943; contact with Jewish Communist youth; return home, January 1944; deportation to a brick factory in Szilagy Somlyo, April 1944; life in Szilagy Somlyo; deportation to Auschwitz, late May 1944; camp life; transfer to the family camp; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, October 1944; transfer to Duderstadt; camp life; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Romania via Hungary; help from the community; studies; marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; absorption.