Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer to the death march; liberation of the Ludwigslust camp by the American army; end of the war; return to Baia Mare in 1945; joining the "Aliya training" of the Beitar movement in Arad in 1946; transfer to Burgas in 1947; illegal immigration to Israel within the Aliya Bet organization on board the "Pan York" ship; exile to a "summer camp" in Cyprus in 1947; Aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption