Testimony of Klara (Grin) Farkash, born in Carei, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Satu-Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Praust

Testimony of Klara (Grin) Farkash, born in Carei, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Satu-Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Praust Traditional family; life in Satu-Mare; membership in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement for a short period; attends an elementary and public school; learns sewing. German occupation, 1944; restrictions on movement; yellow badge; draft of her brother to a labor camp; deportation to the Satu-Mare Ghetto; release of her brother and he joins the family in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in a freight train in a sealed railroad car for four days; selection; separation from her family; murder of her mother; camp life including roll-calls in the morning and at night, June 1944; transfer to Stutthof, July 1944; transfer to Praust; forced labor in an airfield, cleaning damage done by the Allied forces air-raids; German Army soldiers guard the camp; camp life; death march; beatings; the Germans flee; liberation. Hospitalization; typhus illness; help from the JDC organization; return to Satu-Mare; stay in a dormitory for young people; marriage; return of her brother after his role as an aliya emissary in Vienna; aliya to Israel, 1951.