Testimony of Vera (Kovesh) Berlinski, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Strasshof and Vienna

Testimony of Vera (Kovesh) Berlinski, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto, Strasshof and Vienna Life before the war. Anti-Jewish legislation; a non-Jewish partner is forced into her father's business; draft of her father to forced labor; arrival of Jewish refugees from Slovakia; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; hiding their jewellery in the cellar; deposit of their money with the non-Jewish neighbors; Judenrat; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto, May 1944; deportation of her father to a labor camp; transfer to a brick factory; flogging by SS and Hungarian gendarmes; liquidation of the ghetto with the help of the Jewish police, June 1944; deportation to Strasshof; meets Yugoslavian soldiers en route; sends a postcard to her father with the help of the soldiers; transfer to a camp; disappearance of her grandmother; transfer to a school which was converted into a camp in Vienna, per an agreement between Kasztner and Eichmann; labor in construction and clearing rubble; the children remain in the school and the Jewish hospital; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Return to Debrecen; reunion with relatives; return of their money by the neighbors; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.