Playing Vera Vertes talks about her arrival to Auschwitz

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Vera Vertes talks about her arrival to Auschwitz

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Contributed by Sandra Gasana

Length: 3 min 32 sec

Year of Production: 1995

Director:

Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre

Producer:

Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre

Vera Vertes, born in 1928, in Hungary, was the eldest of three sisters, raised in a well-to-do family. With the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, the life of the Jews of Dombovar changed dramatically. In May 1944, her family, with the exception of her father, was forced to move in the city’s new established ghetto. Only three months later they were deported in overcrowded cattle-cars to Auschwitz. Arriving in Auschwitz was a traumatic experience for the 15 year old Vera. She had to say goodbye to her sisters and grandmother without knowing that they would be separated forever.