Testimony of Miriam Agnes (Rozendorn) Steiner, born in Dombovar, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Kaspovar Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, the Markkleeberg camp and other places

Testimony of Miriam Agnes (Rozendorn) Steiner, born in Dombovar, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Kaspovar Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, the Markkleeberg camp and other places Life before the war. Deportation of her father to a labor battalion, 1944; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; deportation to the Kaspovar Ghetto, 24 May 1944; ghetto life including curfew in effect most of the day; smuggling of food into the ghetto by a non-Jewish friend; deportation to Auschwitz with her mother and aunt, July 1944; life on the train including loss of their sanity by some of the deportees; camp life without work; lengthy roll calls; murder of the sick; selections; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, autumn 1944; camp life; pneumonia; labor clearing away snow; transfer to Markkleeberg; camp life; labor hauling coal to the SS living quarters; transfer to labor in an aircraft factory; evacuation of the camp, April 1944; transfer by death march; escape from the death march; finding a hiding place in the villages; arrest by the Germans; deportation to Glashuette; liberation by the Red Army, 08 May 1945. Life in Hungary including reunion with her father; physical and emotional rehabilitation; aliya to Israel, 1949.