Testimony of Dvora (Moskovitz) Berger, born in Peneszlek, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Mezosas, the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Hessisch Lichtenau and on a death march

Testimony of Dvora (Moskovitz) Berger, born in Peneszlek, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Mezosas, the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz, Hessisch Lichtenau and on a death march Her childhood with her parents; move to Mezosas; displays of antisemitism in the school; acts of harassment. German Army occupation [of Mezosas], 1944; life under German occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; restrictions on travel, ban on the possession of a radio, and demand to hand over valuables; attitude of the local population; in hiding while hidden by a Hungarian neighbor; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto, June 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, July 1944; selection, including separation according to age groups; camp life in Auschwitz, Camp C; receives a note from her father; exchanges [her place] with another woman inmate in order to join her brother and sister; selection [before Tisha B'Av], August 1944; transfer to Hessisch Lichtenau camp; camp life including labor in shifts in an ammunitions factory; receives striped clothing with the number 20003; death march to the Breslau forest; liberation by the US Army. Revenge on an SS woman on a train en route from Czechoslovakia to Hungary; meets Jewish Agency people; receives help from the JDC; return of her father from the camps; return of her sister from the camps; escape from Hungary in exchange of bribery; aliya to Israel, 1949.