Testimony of Rachel (Godinger) Shefer, born in Bystra, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bystra Ghetto, Filipec, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Altenburg

Testimony of Rachel (Godinger) Shefer, born in Bystra, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Bystra Ghetto, Filipec, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Altenburg Life before the war; attends a local school. Annexation to Hungary; restrictions on Jews; escape to her sister in Filipec; escape to Bystra; life in Bystra including deportation to the Bystra Ghetto; deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Altenburg; camp life including a struggle between Jews and Gypsies; transfer to forests near Altenburg; liberation by the British Army. Return to Czechoslovakia; move to Budapest; move to Greifenberg; life in a kibbutz in Greifenberg; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel.