Testimony of Judit Erzike (Farkash) Nahmani, born in Nyirbeltek, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Nyirbeltek and in Ravensbrueck, Penig and Chemnitz camps

Testimony of Judit Erzike (Farkash) Nahmani, born in Nyirbeltek, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Nyirbeltek and in Ravensbrueck, Penig and Chemnitz camps Life before the war; traditional family; studies sewing. German occupation, March 1944; termination of her studies and her work; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions including travel restrictions; wears a yellow badge; life in a marked house; deportation to labor in a cloth weaving factory; labor in the production of uniforms for the German Army; deportation to Ravensbrueck, December 1944; camp life; labor straightening areas for construction; selection made while naked; transfer to Penig; camp life; labor in an aircraft parts factory; approach of the war front; transfer on a march; escape; capture by Wehrmacht soldiers; air-raids on the area by Allied forces; approach of the Red Army; transfer on a march to Chemnitz; life in Chemnitz; finds a hiding place during a deportation; liberation by the Red Army and the US Army. Return to Budapest; membership in the Dror Habonim movement; move to Ansbach; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, July 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, December 1946; life in Atlit camp, January 1947.