Testimony of Shoshana Rosie (Moskal) Solomon, born in Budesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budesti, the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, in hiding and in Schleiden

Testimony of Shoshana Rosie (Moskal) Solomon, born in Budesti, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Budesti, the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz, in hiding and in Schleiden Life in Budesti before the war; her parents are farmers; attends a local Romanian school; aliya training. Re-annexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews, 1939; school attendance on Shabbat; abuse of men with beards; knowledge of murder of Jews; termination of studies, 1940; deportation for forced labor at the eastern front, 1943; deportation to the Sighet Ghetto, Pesach (April) 1944; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life; transfer of women to forced labor in Germany; help from Italian POWs; liquidation of the camp; death march with the POWs, February 1945; transfer by train; Allied air-raids; encouragement to escape by an SS guard; escape to a forest; life in hiding; life in Schleiden; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Typhus; treatment by the Red Cross and UNRRA; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1948.