Testimony of Hinda Ahuva (Cohen) Davidovich, born in Szarvas Bekes, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Szarvas Ghetto, Szolnok and Guntersdorf

Testimony of Hinda Ahuva (Cohen) Davidovich, born in Szarvas Bekes, Hungary, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Szarvas Ghetto, Szolnok and Guntersdorf From a financially secure religious family; witness' father is a wheat merchant; attends a local elementary school in Szarvas and a high school in Budapest; learns to make hats. German occupation, 1944; return to Szarvas; deportation to the Szarvas Ghetto; deportation to a transit camp in a sugar factory in Szolnik; camp life; air-raids; transfer to Guntersdorf by freight train, 1944; camp life including agricultural labor; labor in a textile factory preparing clothing for German soldiers; the Germans flee, 1945. Walk to Budapest; return to Szarvas on a freight train; marriage, 1946; return to Budapest; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Hatikvah" via Austria; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1948.