Testimony of Helena (Brisk) Grega, born in Tornala, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Plaszow and Kratzau

Testimony of Helena (Brisk) Grega, born in Tornala, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz, Plaszow and Kratzau Life before the war; move to Kosice. Restrictions and bans; closure of the witness' father's shop; annexation to Hungary, 1938; concentration of the Jews in two synagogues; deportation to a brick factory, May 1944; deportation to Auschwitz by train, June 1944; separation of the elderly and very young children from the others; transfer to Plaszow, July 1944; camp life including labor as a porter; her sister's assignment to kitchen duties and smuggling food; transfer to Auschwitz, September 1944; camp life including her sister's hospitalization; escape to be with her sister; transfer to Kratzau; camp life including labor in a gas mask factory; liberation, May 1945. Return home; wanderings between Trebisov and Presov; her sister's death in Bergen-Belsen; marriage, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1949.