Testimony of Eti Berkovitz, born in Tacovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Tacovo, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Salzwedel

Testimony of Eti Berkovitz, born in Tacovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Tacovo, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Salzwedel Life in Tacovo before the war; hasidic family; attends a state school until 1938. Re-annexation to Hungary; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944; camp life; transfer to Salzwedel, 1944; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; rescue by a female SS officer named Annalise Schmidt; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Return to her family's home; life in her family's home including reunion with her father and brother; aliya to Israel on the "Transylvania" ship, 1948.