Aviva Frida Bedriska Bar On

Testimony of Aviva (Winkler) Bar-On, born 1932, Miroslav, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt and Switzerland Outbreak of the war and deportation of her family to Brno, 1939; life as refugees in her uncles' home; deportation to Theresienstadt with all of her family, 1942; life in the "Hamburg" barracks with her mother; separation from her father and brother; her mother's labor with quarried substances in a factory and her father's labor in construction; life with children her same age; organized activities of choir singing, gymnastics and some studies; transfer to Switzerland along with 1,200 other people in the context of an exchange of German soldiers. Return to Prague and Miroslav, and the return of their home to her family; aliya to Israel, 1949.