Testimony of Elizabet (Shvartz) Brodi, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Surany Ghetto, Komarno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and Parschnitz

Testimony of Elizabet (Shvartz) Brodi, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Surany Ghetto, Komarno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and Parschnitz Life before the war; education. Re-annexation to Hungary, November 1938; restrictions on Jews including drafted to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; rescue from the deportation of the Jews from Slovakia, 1942; deportation of her family to the Surany Ghetto; ghetto life including supervision by Hungarian gendarmes; confiscation of valuables; concentration of the Jews in a synagogue; transfer to Komarno; deportation to Auschwitz by train; camp life; transfer to Plaszow with her mother; camp life including labor in a quarry; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Parschnitz with her mother; camp life including labor outside the camp every day at an AEG factory in Trutnov; her mother's illness, hospitalization and death; transfer to labor digging; supervision by German soldiers; liberation by the Red Army in Parschnitz, May 1945. Move to Prague; move to Bratislava; move to Surany; life in Surany; move to Nitra; marriage, 1947; aliya to Israel via Italy, 1949.