Testimony of Irene (Holander) Moskovich, born in Chust, Czechoslovkia, 1911, regarding her experiences in the Tacovo Ghetto, Auschwitz and Zittau camps

Testimony of Irene (Holander) Moskovich, born in Chust, Czechoslovkia, 1911, regarding her experiences in the Tacovo Ghetto, Auschwitz and Zittau camps Move to Tacovo at a young age; life in Tacovo before the war; attitude to non-Jews; marriage and move to Budapest, 1940. Draft of her husband into the army; birth of her child; return to her parents in Tacovo; refuses offer to illegally cross the border to Budapest; deportation to the Tacovo Ghetto, May 1944; attitude of the Hungarian population toward the Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her baby; camp life; transfer to Zittau; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory and observance of religious commandments; attitude toward the Yugoslavian POWs and contact with American POWs; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Budapest; reunion with her husband; emigration to Havana, 1948; move to New York, 1951; aliya to Israel, 1979.