Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transfer on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more

Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transfer on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more 

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Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transfer on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more 

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Memoirs of Magda Ödönné (Komor) Lederer, born in Szabadka, Yugoslavia, 1900, regarding her experiences in the Szabadka Ghetto, Bácsalmás camp, in Budapest, and transport on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen and more Life in Szabadka during the German occupation; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; sewing of valuables inside clothing; assembly of 350 men, including her husband, Ödön Lederer, and her brother, Ernő, night of 13 April 1944; deportation of the men, apparently to Germany, April 1944; receiving a farewell letter from her husband and a request to take care of their daughter, Kata; receiving an order regarding the deportation of Jews to the Szabadka Ghetto, until 08 May 1944; life in the Szabadka Ghetto; visit of László Baky, secretary of state in the Hungarian Interior Ministry; deportation, 16 June 1944; transfer to an internment camp in Bácsalmás; camp life; deportation of Jews in two transports towards Miskolc and Szeged, 25 June 1944; deportation together with her daughter Kata and the wife and daughter of her brother Ernő on an additional train to Budapest, together with 65 other Jews, 26 June 1944; transfer to this train due to the help of her brother, Gyula; deportation of her parents together with the other Jews; arrival in Budapest, 27 June 1944; transfer to the synagogue on Aréna St.; life in the synagogue together with Jews from all parts of Hungary; transport on the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen, 29 June 1944; camp life; transfer on the Kasztner train to Saint Gallen, 02 December 1944; transfer to the Caux sur Montreux refugee camp; life as refugees; escape together with her daughter to Zurich, June 1945. Life in Zurich including work as a housemaid; receiving a message that her husband is alive and has returned to the family home, 23 July 1945; preparing to return home; move to Yugoslavia, 24 August 1945. Fate of the Komor family: - Her father, Géza Klein, born, 13 February 1867; deported while sick from Bácsalmás, 25 June 1944; death of her father on a train, his burial is in a mass grave near Kassa; it is rumored that his cousin was the poet, József Kiss; - Her mother, Mathilda Sessler, born, 29 December 1900; deported from Bácsalmás together with her husband and perished in Auschwitz; - Her brother, Ernő Komor, was deported to forced labor in Germany, April 1944, where he perished; his wife and daughter were on the Kasztner train; they survived, made aliya to Israel following the war and lived in Tel Aviv; - Her brother, Gyula Komor, was on the Kasztner train; he made aliya to Israel following the war and lives in Jerusalem; - Her daughter, Kata, got married after the war and made aliya to Israel together with her husband and daughter, 1948; - Ödönné Lederer and her husband made aliya to Israel, 1949, and lived in Moshav Kidron. Names of people who were with Ödönné Lederer on the Kasztner train: Schweigerné together with her family; Ernőné Fischer; Rabbi Dr. Gerson; Rabbi Silberstein from Vásárhely; Marcellné Löb; Guszti Mayer; Szondi Lipót; Juszticné; R. Márta; Irsay, graphic artist; Gréte Weis and her mother from Debrecen; Dr. Klára Kovács from Subotica; Béla Zsolt, journalist; L. Edit from Budapest; the wife of Dr. Arthur Denneberg; Dezső Ernster, opera singer; Kriszháber, optician; Steiner, together with his mother; Schaffer; Stigliczné; Mariska Schönberger; Dr. Weissberger; Dr. Schönbergerné from Novi Sad.