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Mrs. T. recalls arrival at Auschwitz; the pervasive \\stench\\; separation from her mother; walking to Birkenau; believing for weeks the \\ovens\\ were a bakery; overwhelming hunger and the resulting psychological debilitation; transport to Weisswasser in January 1945; work in an airplane factory; receiving food from French POWs; liberation by Soviets in May; and return to Sighet two months later. She discusses her book, which focuses on the immediate postwar period and efforts to live as \\normal humans\\ again; leaving Sighet in 1947; working for the Joint in Munich; learning one brother had survived and was in Palestine; emigration to the United States in 1949; marriage in 1957; involvement in Jewish communal affairs; and attending college, which led to the writing of her book. (Abstract)","This testimony is open with permission. (Conditions Governing Access)","Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. 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Mrs. T. discusses Sighet; ethnic rivalries; Jewish life; Hungarian occupation in 1940; attending school in Kolozsvár (Cluj); and Zionist activities. She describes the failure of Jewish leaders to inform the community of the fate of Polish Jewry; her three brothers' conscription into Hungarian labor battalions; German occupation; a last Passover seder; her father's arrest as a hostage, with others, to ensure compliance with German orders; humiliating body searches by Hungarian gendarmes; and deportation. Mrs. T. recalls arrival at Auschwitz; the pervasive \\stench\\; separation from her mother; walking to Birkenau; believing for weeks the \\ovens\\ were a bakery; overwhelming hunger and the resulting psychological debilitation; transport to Weisswasser in January 1945; work in an airplane factory; receiving food from French POWs; liberation by Soviets in May; and return to Sighet two months later. 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