Testimony of Ruth Palgi née Shpitz, born in 1927 in Nadost, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Kosice Mesto and the Auschwitz and Peterswaldau camps

Offspring of an affluent family in Nadost; impoverishment and relocation to Kosice Mesto in 1938; area reannexed by Hungary; father helps refugees to slip out of Germany; German occupation in 1944; dispossession; eviction from the faily home; Jews rounded up in a brickyard; deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; parents and five siblings murdered; witness and sister transferred to Peterswaldau in June 1944; life in the camp; manucturing aircraft spare parts; typhus and hospitalization; liberation by Red Army forces in May 1945; back to Hungary; joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Slovakia; immigration to Israel in 1948; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Israel.