Testimony of Ada Erika (Brok) Verobel, born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Galanta, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Allendorf

Testimony of Ada Erika (Brok) Verobel, born in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Galanta, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Allendorf Life before the war; from a religious Orthodox family. Deportation of those without citizenship by Hungarian soldiers, 1940; restrictions on the Jews including termination of studies; yellow badge; confiscation of property; Aryanization of the family shop; curfew; witness' father is drafted into the Hungarian Army; transfer of her father to a camp; deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; camp life; information regarding the murder of Jews; disbelief of the information; transfer to Allendorf, August 1944; camp life; labor in a weapons factory; labor in 12-hour shifts; transfer by death march in the snow; air-raids by the US Army; liberation by the US Army. Life in Germany until June 1945; return to Czechoslovakia; life in Czechoslovakia; finding valuables that had been hidden; aliya to Israel, 1949.