Testimony of Pnina Piri Perel (Adler) Ben Ari, born in Dubova, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Dubova Ghetto, Auschwitz; a camp in Poland and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Pnina Piri Perel (Adler) Ben Ari, born in Dubova, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Dubova Ghetto, Auschwitz; a camp in Poland and Theresienstadt Life before the war; from a well-to-do family; relations with the local population. Outbreak of the war; re-annexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews; closing of the family store; deportation to the Dubova Ghetto; ghetto life including brutality of the Hungarian gendarmes; her brother's escape to the partisans; capture of her brother and his murder in Auschwitz; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including the murders of her mother and younger siblings; life with her sisters and mutual support; labor carrying rocks; transfer to another camp in Poland; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; approach of the Allied forces; death march to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt including medical treatment for typhus. Return to Dubova; life in Dubova; frigid reception from those who looted her family's property; life in a DP camp n Germany; help from the JDC; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "HaMaapil HaAlmoni"; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.