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Testimony of Shoshana Suzana Geron, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Somcuta Mare, Cluj, Baia Mare, Auschwitz and other places

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Testimony of Shoshana Suzana Geron, born in Somcuta Mare, Romania, 1932, regarding her experiences as a child in Somcuta Mare, Cluj, Baia Mare, Auschwitz and other places Life before the war; traditional family; attends a Romanian school. Annexation to Hungary; restrictions on the Jews; numerous clausus; life in Cluj and external education; arrest of her mother due to help to a Communist in Budapest; release of her mother in exchange for lots of money; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto; ghetto life; receives offers to hide the family in a forest; deportation on a train to Auschwitz; camp life; selection; murder of the father; observing Yom Kippur; receives help from her mother; transfer to Weisswasser; camp life; labor in a Telefunken factory for the production of aircraft parts; labor with French POWs; guarded by SS women; liberation by the Red Army, 06 May 1945. Convalescence; return to Romania; life in Romania; education; aliya to Israel, 1969.
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7487488
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Shoshana
Suzana
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Geron
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16/01/1932
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Somcuta Mare, Romania
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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16/09/08
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16/09/08
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Gron Suzana
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection