Erica K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-919) interviewed by Ann Solov Walker and Janet Miller,

Videotape testimony of Erica K., who was born in Mad, Hungary in 1925 and grew up in Miskolc. She recalls a carefree childhood; German occupation; her father being "taken early"; deportation to Auschwitz with her mother and siblings; transfer to Birkenau with her sister and cousin; constant thirst and hunger; the oppressive odor; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Ravensbrück in August 1944, then Reinickendorf; a German foreman providing extra food which she shared with her sister; and transfer to Oranienburg. Mrs. K. describes liberation by Soviet troops; living in Germany, then Brussels; reunion with two siblings and an uncle; and emigrating to the United States in 1953. She notes the importance to her survival of being with her sister and that not one of her school friends survived.