Testimony of Rachel Lakosh, born in Kisujszallas, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kisujszallas, Vienna, the Szolnok Ghetto, Strasshof camp and Budapest

Testimony of Rachel Lakosh, born in Kisujszallas, Hungary, 1921, regarding her experiences in Kisujszallas, Vienna, the Szolnok Ghetto, Strasshof camp and Budapest Her childhood in a well-to-do, traditional family including attending an Hungarian elementary school and high school; move to Vienna for studies, 1937; life in Vienna including antisemitism; return to Hungary. Draft of the men to forced labor in Ukraine; disbelief regarding information received regarding Auschwitz; deportation to the Szolnok Ghetto; Szolnok Ghetto life, for one month; deportation on freight trains to Strasshof camp; camp life including life in barracks with pigs; forced labor clearing rubble and in construction and agriculture; liberation by the Red Army. Move back to Budapest; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1957.