Testimony of Metuka Zysl (Turkeltaub) Berkovitz, born in Oradea, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krottingen, Stutthof, Krakow and other places

Testimony of Metuka Zysl (Turkeltaub) Berkovitz, born in Oradea, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Krottingen, Stutthof, Krakow and other places Her parents' home; her father serves as a rabbi. Hungarian Army occupation of Oradea, 1940; life under Hungarian rule including hunger and the allocation of food; German Army occupation of Oradea, March 1944; Oradea Ghetto life including the establishment of a soup kitchen; transfer of Jews to the Dreher beer factory for interrogation; preparations for deportation; illness; deportation by train to Auschwitz, May 1944; leaving of their belongings in the railroad car; meets Polish inmates; selection by Mengele; separation of the family; life in Auschwitz with her sister; transfer to a Wehrmacht camp in Krottingen; camp life including labor mending army uniforms; approach of the military front; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including labor in a sewing workshop; imposition of collective punishment due to an attempt to steal; acts of abuse on women inmates by a political prisoner named Max; meeting with her sister from a distance; death march, January 1945; life in a cowshed; liberation by the Red Army in Gnewin. Move to Krakow; life in Krakow including hunger and begging for charity; move back to Oradea; settling of a Gypsy family in their home; life with her uncle; move in the direction of Eretz Israel with help from border smugglers; move to Debrecen; receives help from Budapest Jewry; receives help from Vienna Jewry; receives help from the JDC; move on foot to Italy; capture; detention; release; life in a "kibbutz" of Dror Habonim; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Lamed Hei Giborim [Giborei Kfar Etzion]" ship; capture by the British Army; resistance; transfer to Cyprus and detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel; life in Israel.