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Survivor: Judith Rubinstein

My name is Judith Rubinstein and I survived from Auschwitz- Birkenau. It all started when we first moved to live in a ghetto in my native land Hungary. It was my two brothers, my mother and father and I who lived in the miserable conditions that were the ghettos. Once we left the ghetto we were all pressed tightly into a cattle car that was heading towards Germany. They told us that we would work in factories, yet that is nowhere near where we ended up. We arrived to Auschwitz-Berkenau on May 20th 1944. As they unlocked the cattle car doors, there were men in a ready stance with their guns. They were the Nazi’s in the SS uniforms. Men helped other people get out of the cattle car. At the entrance there was a sign that stated “Arbeit Macht Frei”, which means “Work makes you free”. When we arrived there was music playing by the inmates on the platform. It just seemed so out of place with the feeble people behind the fence.

They separated families, my older brother and father were gone, and I never saw them ever again. Before he had left he told me to try to get into a working crew, but that was all he had told me, no reason and no details. I stood with my mother and younger brother as one of the Nazi men started a selection process. He was sending the healthy and young to one side, while the older women and women with children went to the other side.

I remember the last time I saw my mother, she took the children of the girls standing in front of us and told us to go to the other line of the healthy, young girls. I didn’t want to leave my mother’s side but I did as I was told. I think about it every time it’s crazy to think that she knew she was saving my life with this decision, but I believe it was true. The pain it gives me to think how much she and all the others suffered while she gave me the gift of staying alive, its something I will never forget and I will always keep her in my memory, for she was an extremely brave woman.

**I **nterviewing- My grandfather Francisco Montaner Event Survived: Spanish Civil War

1. When was the Spanish Civil War? 2. Where did you live during the beginning of the Spanish Civil War? 3. How old were you? 4. Being so young, how did you feel? 5. Were you scared? 6. What side were you on the Nationalists or the Republican? 7. Why did you have to leave Spain? <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">8. How was your life in the concentration camps? <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">9. Were you with your family during your life in the concentration camps? <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">10. What did you eat there? <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">11. During those years, how were children taught? <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">12. When did they let you leave the concentration camps? <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">13.What happened when the war was over? <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">14. Where did you live when it was over?