Testimony of Mahia Schwartz Fried, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding the deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony of Mahia Schwartz Fried, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1925, regarding the deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps Family background; move to Sacveni in Transylvania. Deportation to the Oradea ghetto; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 24 May 1945; murder of her parents in crematorium; living conditions in the camp; arrangements; Mengele selections; fear that they would separate the witness from her sisters who were with her; inaction; a stay of about six months; transfer with her sisters to Nuernberg to a labor camp, November 1944; improvement in living conditions; work in aircraft parts; the bombings; direct hit on the camp by bombings; transfer to the Holleischen labor camp in the Czech Republic; hiding Jews in the camp; the conditions in the camp; warm attitude on the part of the local population; providing food by a local population and passing on information that the war is about to end; Meeting with Czech partisans. Liberation by the Americans, 05/05/1945; return to Satu Mare; aliya B on the Pan York ship; exile to Cyprus; aliya to Israel in 1948; rehabilitation and absorption.