Testimony of Hava Eva (Rutkai) Ungar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Szeged, Strasshof and the Floridsdorf Wien camp

Testimony of Hava Eva (Rutkai) Ungar, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Szeged, Strasshof and the Floridsdorf Wien camp Life before the war; life in Szeged in an orphanage; attends a government school; ostracism by the Jewish children. Concentration of the Jewish children in a roof tile factory, March 1944; deportation to Vienna by train; life in Vienna; help from the Jewish community and the Joint Distribution Committee; deportation to Strasshof; camp life; guarding of the camp by Ukrainian guards and German guards; transfer by truck to Vienna; transfer to a paint factory at 21 Floridsdorf Street; camp life with workers from Italy, France and Greece; labor in a laboratory until March 1945; approach of the front; air-raids on the camp; escape during the alerts; labor in the city clearing away rubble after air-raids; the factory is hit by a bomb; transfer to Strasshof, March 1945; transfer by train to Theresienstadt; air-raids on the train; transfer back to Strasshof; camp life under weak guard; escape to a forest; help from Austrian soldiers; liberation by the Red Army. Attempts to rape women; return to Budapest, May 1945; move to a camp to recuperate and study; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Knesset Israel", 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life in Ben Shemen.