Testimony of Katarina (Reisner) Klein, born in Salonta, Romania, 1928 regarding the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and additional camps
Testimony of Katarina (Reisner) Klein, born in Salonta, Romania, 1928 regarding the Oradea ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and additional camps
Her parents' home; membership in the "Dror Habonim" movement;
Entry of the Hungarian Army, 1941; economic decrees; her father taken for forced labor; cessation of studies; antisemitism; prohibition on keeping a Christian maid; entrusting valuables for safekeeping with a neighbor; German Army occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; cessation of activity in the movement [Dror Habonim]; eviction from her home; gathering in a synagogue; deportation to the Oradea ghetto; deportation by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; entry to Barrack 16, Lager C, May 1944; transfer by truck to Gabersdorf camp; subsequent transfer to the Wansdorf and Georgenthal camps; forced labor in a factory cleaning with a chemical without gloves; injury to her hands from the chemical; transfer to a factory for sewing shirts; the fleeing of the German guards, May 1945; entry of the Red Army; riots and rape by Soviet soldiers;
Sent for convalescence with a German family; travel by train to Brno, Czechoslovakia and from there to Budapest; aid from the JDC; return to Salonta; reunion with her father; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1963.
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Katerina
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Reizner
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Klein
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02/06/1928
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Salonta, Romania
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives