Testimony of Edith (Propstein) Polishuk, born in Krupina, Czechoslovakia in 1920, regarding her experiences in Velke Sarluhy, in the Levice Ghetto, in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, illegal immigration on the "Exodus" ship, and other places

Testimony of Edith (Propstein) Polishuk, born in Krupina, Czechoslovakia in 1920, regarding her experiences in Velke Sarluhy, in the Levice Ghetto, in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, illegal immigration on the "Exodus" ship, and other places Life with her parents; move to Velke Sarluhy in 1925; Entry of the Hungarian Army into Slovakia in 1938; ban against working; suffering from antisemitism; wearing a yellow badge; change in the attitude of the population toward the Jews; German occupation of Budapest, 1944; deportation to the Levice Ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life in Block no. 9; holding of shared prayer, using a Siddur (Jewish prayer book); selection and transfer to a labor camp; labor in an ammunitions factory and in digging; transfer to Halle [?]; labor in an ammunitions factory; meeting inmates from Buchenwald camp who are in a "Muselmann" physical condition; transfer on a death march; the SS men flee; liberation by the US Army; Return to her family's home; she meets aliya emissaries in 1946; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel via France on the "Exodus" ship; deportation of the "Exodus" ship by the British to the port of Port de Bur; removal of the illegal immigrants from the ship at the port in Hamburg; aliya to Israel in 1948.