Testimony of Katalin (Shomogi) Reisfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Austria, Ravensbrueck and Penig

Testimony of Katalin (Shomogi) Reisfeld, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Austria, Ravensbrueck and Penig From a well-to-do Neolog family; attends a Jewish school. German occupation, 19 March 1944; closure of the family store; labor in a Hungarian factory producing work clothes for the German Army; transfer to a marked house; deportation of the witness' father to a labor camp; her father's escape and return home; deportation to Austria on foot; transfer back to Budapest, November 1944; attempt to convert with help from a Catholic priest; deportation to Ravensbrueck by train; camp life; transfer to Penig; camp life including labor in an aircraft parts factory; German Army retreat, April 1945; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization in a sanitarium; return to Budapest; marriage; immigration to Colombia; aliya to Israel, 1962.