Testimony of Vera (Kannengiesser) Assenheimer, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen, Morgenstern, Dora and other places

Testimony of Vera (Kannengiesser) Assenheimer, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gross-Rosen, Morgenstern, Dora and other places Only child; her father is a lawyer; witness is cared for by a nanny; attends a Jewish Neolog school; learns the languages Slowak and German. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1944; decrees; termination of studies; yellow badge; restrictions on Jews; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944; separation from her father; transfer with her mother to Zelletral via Gross-Rosen; camp life including labor in a cloth factory; transfer on foot to Morgenstern via Risengeburge; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory and an ammunitions factory; transfer to Dora; death march with her mother from Linz to Gunskirchen via Mauthausen; end of the war. Return to Kosice; aliya to Israel, 1949; marriage; move to Antwerp; return aliya, 2001; life in Kfar Saba.