Memoirs of Helén Keller József, born in Győr, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and Reinickendorf

Memoirs of Helén Keller József, born in Győr, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and Reinickendorf 

Memoirs of Helén Keller József, born in Győr, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and Reinickendorf 

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Memoirs of Helén Keller József, born in Győr, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in Berlin, Ravensbrueck, Auschwitz and Reinickendorf From an assimilated family; family life in Győr before the war. Non-acceptance in the high school due to the numerus clausus, 1939; continuation of her studies in a monastery school until autumn, 1943; strengthening of her Jewish consciousness; draft of her father to the Hungarian Army labor battalions in Komárom, 1940; release of her father due to deterioration of his health, 1941; closing of the family store and deportation to the Győr Ghetto, 1944; forays from the ghetto in order to deliver parcels to detainees; her mother's desire that the family commit suicide; deportation from the ghetto to Auschwitz, 14 June 1944; camp life; preparation for transfer to Ravensbrueck and selection nine weeks later; escape of her mother and her rescue from the gas chamber; transfer to Ravensbrueck; remaining in Ravensbrueck for eight days; transfer to the Berlin Reinickendorf camp, 25 August 1944; camp life including labor cleaning the houses of the SS women and office work; decision to transfer female forced laborers from the excavations in the Berlin area, among them Helén's mother, January 1945; attempt to hide her ailing mother in the hospital; removal of her mother from the hospital by Kato Klein, the Lagerälteste; transfer of her mother in a transport of the sick, 01 March 1945; transfer of Helén to Sachsenhausen on foot, April 1945; evacuation of the camp; death march to the Neustadt area; liberation by the Red Army, 03 May 1945. Return to Győr, May 1945; move to an aliya training facility in Budapest; aliya in the direction of Eretz Israel; marriage while en route to Eretz Israel with her husband; many postponements of the date for aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya with their baby on an illegal immigrants' ship to Eretz Israel, 27 November 1947.