Testimony of Prushka Ruth Hermann Pest, born in 1931 in Györ, Hungary, about the Györ ghetto and Mengele's twins block in Auschwitz

Childhood in an Orthodox home; Germans enter Hungary in March 1944; Jews of Györ rounded up in a synagogue; compulsory wearing of the yellow star; humiliating measures; dispossession; ghettoization; eviction from the ghetto to a collection camp; abuse of the community leaders; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and transfer to Mengele's twins block in Birkenau; murder of the family in Auschwitz; description of the examinations that the twins endured; transfer to C-Lager before autumn; spared from a death march on January 18, 1945; Red Army forces arrive and witness is placed in a convent in Katowice; discharge from the convent; Russians send witness to a refugee camp in Slutsk, Belorussia; sent back to Budapest half a year later; children's home in Budapest, autumn 1945 and thence, under false names of Hungarian refugees, sets out to Eretz Israel with help from the Bricha; from Vienna to Leipheim, Germany; crossing the Alps to Milan and thence to Salvino; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Hatikva; deportation to Cyprus; immigration to Eretz Israel in December 1947; easy rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.