Testimony of Lea Olga (Lorintz) Havas, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz and Oberhohenelbe

Testimony of Lea Olga (Lorintz) Havas, born in Mateszalka, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz and Oberhohenelbe Life in Mateszalka before the war; from a well-to-do religious family; attends a Jewish school; relations with the non-Jewish population. Displays of antisemitism on the part of the Hungarians, 1943; robbery of the family home; confiscation of domesticated animals; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto, spring 1944; deportation to Auschwitz with her family; camp life including separation of parents from children; transfer to Oberhohenelbe; life in Oberhohenelbe in a factory; liberation by the Red Army. Return to the family home; life in the family home including help from the JDC; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; life in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp including caring for children; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Kedmah", 1947.