Testimony of Rachel Lea (Schwimmer) Gross, born in Selce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and other places

Testimony of Rachel Lea (Schwimmer) Gross, born in Selce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Plaszow and other places Life before the war; education. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; draft of her father to forced labor; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; German occupation, March 1944; restrictions; transfer to Irsava; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto; ghetto life including shearing of her father's beard; confiscation of valuables by the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including the death of relatives and flogging; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including Shavuot; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Neustadt; camp life including stealing bread; death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; liberation, 1945. Life including gastroenteritis and typhus; hospitalization in Hungary; move to a Joint's girls' dormitory in Budapest; life including activities in Bnei Akiva; move to Yugoslavia; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliya, 1948; starts a family.