Testimony of Haia (Katz) Schvartz, born in Osoi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Altenburg

Testimony of Haia (Katz) Schvartz, born in Osoi, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Dej Ghetto, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Altenburg Attends a local Romanian school and a Hungarian school. Annexation to Hungary; restrictions; displays of antisemitism, yellow badge and turning over valuables; deportation of her family with Jews from the area to the Dej Ghetto, May 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz after six weeks; life in Camp A with a group of women; many suicides; transfer to Birkenau after six weeks; receives food before transfer to Altenburg; camp life including labor manufacturing weapons in a Krupp factory under the supervision of the a female Block Elder from Auschwitz; appointment as forewoman for a group of women; liberation by the US Army, 13 April 1945. Move to Waldenburg on foot; receives food and good treatment; air-raids; transfer to Buchenwald; receives vaccinations and inoculations in preparation for emigration to the United States; escape out of a desire to return home; move via Prague, Budapest and Bucharest; move to Osoi with help from the JDC; information regarding the deaths of her entire family in the war; starts a family.