Testimony of Esther Ela (Steiner) Erenfeld, born in Ada, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Szeged Ghetto, the Baja Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and other places

Testimony of Esther Ela (Steiner) Erenfeld, born in Ada, Yugoslavia, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Szeged Ghetto, the Baja Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof and other places Life in a religious Zionist home; financially secure. Expulsion from her commercial school; attends a local school; annexation to Hungary, 1941; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Szeged Ghetto by wagon; transfer to the Baja Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train; selection; separation from her family; life in Block 23 in the camp; transfer to Stutthof; transfer to Torun, September 1944; camp life including labor digging anti-tank trenches; transfer to Argenau; separation between the weak and the strong in preparation for a death march; approach of the Red Army; escape of the Germans; walk to Koronowo; living quarters in a school; school is set on fire by Poles; transfer to a prison structure; injured by a stray bullet, April 1945; liberation by Red Army soldiers, April 1945. Common living quarters with women from the camp in Katowice; return to Ada by train; hospitalization in Subotica; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.