Testimony of Lea Erna (Fekete) Marmur, born on Nyirbator, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Fehergyarmat, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Oberaltstadt

Testimony of Lea Erna (Fekete) Marmur, born on Nyirbator, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Fehergyarmat, the Mateszalka Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and Oberaltstadt Life in Fehergyarmat; anti-Jewish legislation, from the late 1930s. Draft of her father to the labor battalions, 1940; violence against the Jews by the Hungarian gendarmes; arrival of refugees from Poland; community's support and help to needy people; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in the great synagogue after the holiday of Pesach, (April) 1944; help from a non-Jewish acquaintance; deportation to the Mateszalka Ghetto; her father's escape and his disappearance; hunger; mutual help; labor sorting clothing; Jewish police; deportation to Auschwitz after the holiday of Shavuot (May 1944); selection; murder of her mother and six siblings; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including harsh labor carrying boulders; abuse using dogs; beatings; lice; mutual help; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life without labor; lashings; questions religious faith in Auschwitz; camp life including smuggling food and keeping a sense of humor; transfer to Oberaltstadt, autumn 1944; camp life including labor in a factory spinning thread; attitude of the Czech labor supervisors; liberation by the Red Army, 08 May 1945. Illegally crosses borders; aliya to Eretz Israel via Germany and France, 1947.