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Testimony of Yehudit Brok née Stern, born in 1925 in Galanta, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in the ghettos of Galanta and Nove Zamky and in the Auschwitz and Hohenelbe camps until 1945

Testimony
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Hungary re-annexes the Galanta area and anti-Jewish violence in 1938; antisemitism escalates and authorities impose restrictions; German occupation ensues in 1944; father arrested and deported to a detention camp in Hungary in 1944; witness deported with mother and siblings to the Galanta ghetto for several days; deportation to a ghetto in a brickyard in Nove Zamky; deporation to Auschwitz in 1944; life in Auschwitz and receiving help from father; transferred to Hohenelbe; life in the camp; working at a factory that turns out aircraft parts; typhus; rescue by a non-Jewish Dutch nurse in 1945; liberation by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Galanta in 1945; marrying and moving to Nagy Meder in 1945; immigration to Israel in 1949; adjustment to life in Israel.
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item Id
9493675
First Name
Yehudit
Last Name
Brok
Maiden Name
Stern
Date of Birth
01/01/1925
Place of Birth
Galanta, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13525
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
13/06/2011
Date of Creation - latest
13/06/2011
Name of Submitter
ברוק שטרן יהודית
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
84
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection