Testimony of Hilda (Teichtal) Klausner, born in Piestany, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Piestany, during wanderings, in hiding, in Budapest, Auschwitz, Kaunas, on a death march and other places

Testimony of Hilda (Teichtal) Klausner, born in Piestany, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in Piestany, during wanderings, in hiding, in Budapest, Auschwitz, Kaunas, on a death march and other places Childhood as part of the family of Rabbi Shlomo Teichtal; religious holidays in her home; the Yeshiva and the students there; synagogues in Piestany; displays of antisemitism before the war. German occupation, 1939; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; travel restrictions; confiscation of property and more; escape with one of her sisters in the direction of Budapest, accompanied by a smuggler; journey via Nove Zamky and Nitra until their return home; collection of the Piestany Jews and their deportation to camps; members of the family hide in a bakery; escape to Nitra, 1943; crossing the border illegally to Budapest with help from a smuggler; Rabbi Teichtal's return to activity in the Great Synagogue in Budapest; German occupation, March 1944; smuggling of her parents and sister into Bratislava; meeting with her parents in Bratislava; life using the false identity of a Christian woman for a short time; deportation to Auschwitz with her parents; selection and separation from her parents; transfer to a labor camp in Kaunas two weeks later; death march; liberation by the US Army. Reunion with her mother and sister; move to Antwerp; marriage, 1946.