Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps

Testimony of Esther Veronika (Katz) Kraus, born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Kecskemet Ghetto and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Allendorf and Melsungen camps Life before the war. Deportation to a brick factory with the Jews; transfer to the Kecskemet Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz- Birkenau, 01 July 1944; camp life; transfer to Allendorf with a group of women, including her sister; camp life; forced labor; transfer to a room in the Revier, the camp hospital; receives lighter labor; transfer on a death march; the Germans flee; escape to a house belonging to the Hitler-Jugend movement; liberation by the US Army at Melsungen. Move to Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1949.