Testimony of Yehudit (Sharf) Hertman, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kisvarda, Budapest, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kratzau

Testimony of Yehudit (Sharf) Hertman, born in Kisvarda, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kisvarda, Budapest, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Kratzau Life in Kisvarda before the war; religious family with many children; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Deportation of Jews who are non-Hungarian citizens, 1939; hides family from Slovakia; transfer of her brother to a labor battalion, 1941; aliya training in Budapest, 1942; activists in the Hashomer Hatzair movement find hiding places for refugees from Poland; establishment of a laboratory to forge documents; German occupation, March 1944; destruction of documents related to the Hashomer Hatzair movement; yellow badge; escape attempt to Romania with a group of activists; detention by the Hungarian police; prison life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; camp life without labor; mutual help between inmates; transfer to Kratzau; life in Kratzau including labor in a weapons factory; receives food from a Czech labor foreman; the Germans disappear [flee]; liberation by the Red Army, 08 May 1945. Move to Prague; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including reunion with members of the Hashomer Hatzair movement; move to Bucharest; aliya to Eretz Israel, October 1945.