Testimony of Edith Kalman Pollak, born in 1923 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, about her experiences in the Baja ghetto, Birkenau, and forced labor in Oberkochen

Childhood in Novi Sad; family life, cultural life, and the Jews' status; Hungarian occupation ensues in 1941; schools closed; shopkeeping license revoked in a razzia in January 1942; father dies; deportation to a collection camp in Subotica; deportation to the Baja ghetto by train; deportation to Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from grandmother; the witness and her mother in Birkenau; witness taken to infirmary for treatment of wounds sustained in an examination by Mengele; mother sent to Bergen-Belsen; witness sent in autumn 1944 to Oberkochen for forced labor; liberated in May 1945; immigrated to Israel in 1950; among the founders of Moshav Kidron.