Testimony of Helena Hendi (Rozenfeld) Eldar, born in Reghin, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in a camp and a prison in Budapest, Auschwitz and Bernsdorf

Testimony of Helena Hendi (Rozenfeld) Eldar, born in Reghin, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in a camp and a prison in Budapest, Auschwitz and Bernsdorf From an Orthodox merchant family; attends a general school; death of her father, 1939. Annexation to Hungary, 1940; decrees including dismissal from work; member of WIZO; deportation to a camp in Hungary, 1943; in prison in Budapest; return home; engagement; deportation of her fiance to a labor camp; detention and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, April 1944; selection by Josef Mengele; camp life including labor moving bricks; selection; transfer to Bernsdorf, late 1944; camp life including labor in a paper factory; cancelation of a death march by the German factory manager; return to labor; liquidation of the camp, 09 May 1945. Return home by foot; marriage, 1945; life under Communism; birth of her daughter, 1946; birth of her son, 1947; work as a bookkeeper in an agricultural factory, 1950; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Artza", 1959.