Testimony of Judit Aharoni, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gleiwitz and more

Testimony of Judit Aharoni, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gleiwitz and more From a Zionist family; her childhood; visit to Eretz Israel, 1935. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; limits on the Jews and persecution: numerus clausus, robbery of property, Aryanization of the family businesses, yellow badge, curfew; attends a Hebrew school in Cluj; dismissal of academic government workers; arrests; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to a ghetto in a brick factory for several weeks; attempts of two priests to rescue the family by hiding them; refusal of her father to be rescued; suicides in the ghetto; information regarding the annihilation of Jews and mistrust of the information; deportation to Auschwitz with her family; selection; murder of her parents; transfer to Stutthof as a transit camp; camp life including disease and hospitalization; transfer to Gleiwitz; camp life including logging trees and labor in a weapons factory for approximately seven months; transfer to camps in Riga; camp life including beatings and labor in coal mines; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Medical treatment; return to Romania; rehabilitation of her life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1960.