Angela Veis

Testimony of Angela (Schwartz) Weiss, born in Fancikovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Berehovo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen and a death march Life before the war; move to Berehovo; education; the Jewish community; member of Hashomer Hatzair. Restrictions on Jews including drafting of men, including her father, to forced labor; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Berehovo Ghetto; ghetto life; march to the train station; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including death of her mother and brother in the gas chambers; Pesach; flogging of a prisoner; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; camp life including a bombing; clearing the dead; writing in the memory books her mother and brother; death march; retreat of the German Army; liberation by the US Army. Return to Czechoslovakia; move to Prague; studies at university; marriage, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949; starts a family.