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Testimony of Erzsebet (Klinger) Roth Cohen, born in Kosice Mesto, Slovakia in 1920, regarding her experiences in Cluj, while using a false identity in Eger, and in Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony
Testimony of Erzsebet (Klinger) Roth Cohen, born in Kosice Mesto, Slovakia in 1920, regarding her experiences in Cluj, while using a false identity in Eger, and in Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps Life as a child in Vienna before the war; Escape to Kosice Mesto in 1939; re-annexation of Kosice Mesto to Hungary in 1938; attempt to deport her to Kamenets Podolski because she has Austrian citizenship; halting of that deportation, and deportation to the Ricse detention camp in 1941; release, several months later, because she marries; escape of her family members to Cluj in 1942; German occupation, 1944; life while using a false identity; life in hiding in the home of a Romanian acquaintance; she finds a hiding place in a clinic for mentally ill patients; escape to Eger; life while using a false identity; detained, after being informed on, and transfer to a prison; transfer to the prison in Miskolc in 1944; transfer to a detention camp in Sarvar in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1944; transfer to a labor camp in the Upper Silesia area; labor in digging; transfer on a death march in the direction of Bergen-Belsen camp in 1945; escape to the home of a Polish laborer in the Czestochowa area (receipt of support from the laborer during her stay in the camp); end of the war in 1945; Return to Kosice; move to Prague; aliya to Israel in 1960.
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9386342
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Elizabet
Erzsebet
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Cohen
Roth
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Klinger
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13/06/1920
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Myslava, Czechoslovakia
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Testimony
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English
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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01/03/2011
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01/03/2011
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רוט כהן קלינגר אליזבת ארזבת Erzsebet (Klinger) Roth Cohen
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YES
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ISRAEL
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection