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Testimony of Margalit Gretha (Nihom) Kenigsberger, born in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding her experiences in Winterswijk, the Vught camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reichenbach and other places

Testimony
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Testimony of Margalit Gretha (Nihom) Kenigsberger, born in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, 1925, regarding her experiences in Winterswijk, the Vught camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reichenbach and other places Life before the war; from a religious family; death of her father, 1938; move to Winterswijk with her mother and siblings. Outbreak of the war; deportation, April 1943; deportation to the Vught camp, 10 April 1943; camp life; instruction of children and caring for them; refusal to join her mother and two siblings on a transport to Sobibor; work in a Philips factory, late 1943; labor assembling light bulbs; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; selection and transfer to the Telefunken factory in the Reichenbach camp; camp life; labor at quality control; air-raids, late 1944; transfer to the Langenbielau camp; camp life; labor in a factory; air-raids on the factory; transfer to Parschwitz by forced march; transfer to Hamburg by train. Transfer to Denmark by train, 01 May 1945; life in Denmark; recuperation in isolation; move to Sweden; return to the Netherlands, August 1945; aliya to Israel as a nurse, 1949.
item Id
6628498
First Name
Greta
Gretha
Margalit
Last Name
Kenigsberger
Maiden Name
Nihom
Date of Birth
08/09/1925
Place of Birth
Nijkerk, The Netherlands
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
26/07/07
Date of Creation - latest
26/07/07
Name of Submitter
Kenigsberger Nihom Gretha
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection