Testimony of Erica Kelerman née Shvartz, born in 1927 in Vranov, Slovakia, about her experiences in Vranov, Budapest, the Berehovo ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, etc.

Testimony of Erica Kelerman née Schwarz, born in 1927 in Vranov, Slovakia, about her experiences in Vranov, Budapest, the Berehovo ghetto, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, etc. Childhood in Vranov, Slovakia; father dies in 1935; the Slovakian regime promulgates anti-Jewish decrees and laws from 1939 on; escape with mother and brother to Budapest in 1943; hiding by means of forged papers; hideout is discovered; arrest in Budapest; released by paying a bribe; escaping with mother to Berehovo in 1943; deportation to ghetto in a brick factory in Berehovo with the onset of the German occupation in 1944; sent to Auschwitz; mother and sister die; life in the camp including labor; death march from Auschwitz to Ravensbrück in 1945; taken to the Malchow camp in 1945; typhus and tuberculosis; death march from Malchow; liberation by Soviet and American forces in Plauen, Germany, in 1945; back to Vranov; on to Bratislava in 1946; immigration to Israel in 1949; adjustment to life in Israel.