Testimony of Zisl Sharlota (Fleishman) Baum, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Augsburg and Munich

Testimony of Zisl Sharlota (Fleishman) Baum, born in Dunajska Streda, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Dunajska Streda Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow, Augsburg and Munich From a religious family; displays of antisemitism. Draft of her father and brother to forced labor in the Hungarian Army, 1938; closure of Jewish shops; German occupation; travel restrictions; establishment of the Judenrat; establishment of the Dunajska Streda Ghetto; handing in valuables; concentration of the Jews in the Great Synagogue; deportation to Auschwitz by freight train, July 1944; selection; camp life in Barracks B3; receives tattoo number 1383; transfer to Plaszow, July 1944; camp life including shooting of people lined up against a wall; living quarters in a cabin; forced labor; labor in the Polish inmates' camp; beatings by the Kapo; transfer to Auschwitz, late August 1944; selection; transfer to Augsburg by train; camp life including labor in a factory welding aircraft parts; making Hanukkah candles from blanket threads; Allied air-raids; transfer to Munich by train; liberation, May 1945. Return home; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Transylvania", 1949.