In 1939, Hungary occupied Czechoslovakia. In 1944, I went to the ghetto in Monor, Hungary. In May 1944, I went to Auschwitz. I was picked out of a line up and tattooed #816538. In Auschwitz, I worked in a kitchen. We were fed once a day, a soup with skin from potatoes and barley. I worked there for two months and then dug ditches.
In January, we were then taken on a death march to Bergen-Belsen. For three days we slept in barns. We were then placed in cattle cars with one piece of bread. After three days, we were let out to eat soup and dirty snow. We traveled for several more days and let out to march more. Bergen-Belsen was worse than Birkenau, there was no place to sleep.
I was liberated by the British. I was very sick. I never saw my family while in the camps. My father died on a death march. One brother died of typhus after liberation. The rest were little and died in the showers with my mother. After the war, I found one brother living in Palestine.
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