Testimony of Agi Ilana (Iozef) Hershkovitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and Rechlin

Testimony of Agi Ilana (Iozef) Hershkovitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and Rechlin From a large religious family; witness' family owns a butcher shop; Jewish studies. Annexation to Hungary; German occupation; establishment of the Sighet ghetto; concentration of the Jews in the Great Synagogue; drafting of her brothers into the Hungarian Army; deportation on a freight train to Auschwitz; selection and separation from her family; camp life including help with food from a female relative assigned to the Canada camp; labor digging pits; transfer to labor in a sewing workshop mending inmates' clothing; transfer of her sister to Bergen-Belsen; roll call in honor of Adolf Eichmann; execution of two women on suspicion that they tried to blow up the crematorium; transfer to Rechlin via Ravensbrueck; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; hepatitis; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Opening of the food warehouses by the Soviets; medical treatment from Soviet and Bulgarian physicians in a convalescence camp; release in Brandenburg; return to Sighet; turning the family home into a non-Jewish old age home; return of some of her family's property; receives help in acquiring food from the JDC; work as a dancer; life in her aunt's house in Sighet; marriage; life in Germany; aliya to Israel, March 1949.