Testimony of Katalin (Szabados) Halevi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Gyor, Landsberg, Tuerkheim and other places

Testimony of Katalin (Szabados) Halevi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Gyor, Landsberg, Tuerkheim and other places Life in Budapest before the war; well-to-do Neolog family; witness attends a Jewish elementary school and the Jewish high school; studies in a commerce academy. Numerus clausus, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions including ban on work in the free professions; curfew; transfer of her father to forced labor; disappearance of her father, 1944; deportation to labor of women who are 15-40 years old; transfer to a stadium; transfer on foot without food or water; march including sleeping under the open sky; mortality of Jews due to exhaustion and murder by gendarmes of the exhausted people; life in a brick factory in Gyor; transfer by ferry across the Danube River to Austria; drowning of women; transfer to Landsberg; life in Landsberg; transfer to Tuerkheim; camp life including labor conveying food; transfer to Kaufering; camp life including labor peeling potatoes; meets inmates from Greece; singing; evacuation of the camp and transfer to Allach; life in Allach; joint recreation between Germans and female inmates on new year's eve, including eating and dancing; liberation by the US Army, 01 May 1945. Aliya to Israel, 1948.