Testimony of Elvira (Monori) Skalski, born in Dolny Kubin, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Spisska Nova, Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck

Testimony of Elvira (Monori) Skalski, born in Dolny Kubin, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding her experiences in Spisska Nova, Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck Childhood; attends a Jewish community German school and afterwards a Slovakian high school; contacts with Christians; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; move to Prague to study; not accepted to medical school because of the numerus clausus. Return home after the German occupation, March 1938; implementation of the Nuremberg Laws, yellow badge, deportations; evades deportation; marriage in 1942; her husband joins the partisans on 02 September 1944; decision to remain with her parents; deportation to Auschwitz via Presov on 01 January 1944; transfer to Ravensbrueck; with her mother in Jugendlager; her mother's illness and her inability to save her; transfer back to Ravensbrueck to perform forced labor; falling ill and being saved by a French Communist female physician; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Remaining an additional month due to the state of her health; her return with the women from Lidice to Prague and rehospitalization; joins her husband and brother who survived; the birth of her daughter in 1946; her daughter's aliya to Israel in 1968; aliya to Israel via Vienna with the help of the Jewish Agency.