Testimony of Chedva Valeria (Bradovka) Slomovits, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and a camp in Estonia

Testimony of Chedva Valeria (Bradovka) Slomovits, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and a camp in Estonia From a Neolog family; attends a Jewish elementary school and a local high school; her mother's death; Beitar membership. German occupation, 1944; the street is turned into a ghetto; deportation by freight train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection by Josef Mengele; camp life including labor at an airfield; transfer to a camp in Estonia; labor in an oil processing factory; help from the Estonian residents; transfer back to Auschwitz; German Army retreat, April 1945. Transfer to a camp for French POWs; medical attention and food; return to Kosice by train; meets Red Army soldiers; housing and help from well-to-do Jewish neighbors; joins the Mizrachi movement in anticipation of aliya to Eretz Israel; move to Bratislava; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Kedmah", 1948; move to a kibbutz.