Testimony of Sara Aharoni née Iudovitz, born in 1928 in Chust, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the Chust ghetto, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; Shabbat and festivals; attends a Jewish school; Jewish community life; activity of synagogues and Zionist youth movements; witness joins the Bnei Akiva movement; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; men inducted into the labor service; witness deported to the Chust ghetto; life in the ghetto; cultural and religious life; Hungarian gendarmes guard the ghetto; confiscation of valuables; witness wears the yellow star; deported to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and separation of family members; sister sent to Bergen-Belsen and dies from typhus there; roll calls; hunger; father dies on a death march; witness taken to a labor camp along with her mother; mother is separated and dies in Auschwitz; forced labor at a bomb factory; death march to Theresienstadt under Wehrmacht (German military) guard; Red Cross inspection; liberation in May 1945; witness moves to Prague and then to Chust; antisemitic manifestations; moves to Yugoslavia; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel under Aliya Bet; deportation to Cyprus, immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.