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Testimony of Malka Stern née Grinberger, born in 1926 in Ganice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Ganice, the Mateszalka ghetto, and the Birkenau and Lübberstedt camps during the war

Testimony
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Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; good relations with the non-Jewish population; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; family business license evoked; father deported to a labor camp in 1941; neighbors who lack Hungarian citizenship deported; refugees from Poland arrive; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness deported to the Mateszalka ghetto; robbed of jewelry; deported to Auschwitz on Shavuot 1944; escapes from a group being transferred in the camp to a crematorium; sent to Lübberstedt in summer 1944; life in the camp; manufacturing bombs; the front closes in and the camp is evacuated; march followed by travel by rail; liberation in a forest near Wiener Neustadt on May 6, 1945; recuperation in a hospital; back to the family home; recovers small portion of property; life in Mukacevo; immigration to Israel in 1972; adjustment to life in Israel.
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9386416
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Malka
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Stern
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Grinberger
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17/10/1926
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Ganice, Czechoslovakia
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Testimony
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13558
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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09/03/2011
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09/03/2011
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שטרן גרינברגר מלכה
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YES
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53
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ISRAEL
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection