Testimony of Hava (Itzkovitz) Hershkovitz, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Ternovo, Neresnice, Sulita, Mateszalka, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Hava (Itzkovitz) Hershkovitz, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, 1923, regarding her experiences in Ternovo, Neresnice, Sulita, Mateszalka, Auschwitz and other places Her childhood, with another seven siblings, in a family of cattle merchants; move to Neresnice; move to Sulita. Outbreak of the war; German Army occupation of Sulita; deportation of young women to Poland; escape to Mateszalka with her sister; life under the shelter of the community including housekeeping work, her life, and food; deportation of her mother and six siblings to Auschwitz; murder of her mother and six siblings in Auschwitz; deportation of the witness and her sister to Auschwitz; camp life including forced labor moving rocks in a wheelbarrow; meets her father; receives additional labor in a kitchen; smuggles food to her father; transfer to Plaszow; camp life including forced labor outside the camp; approach of the Allied forces; death march to Bergen-Belsen, including typhus disease; liberation by the British Army. Receives medical treatment; move to Bratislava; life in Bratislava including marriage and the birth of her daughter; aliya to Israel, 1949; life in Israel.