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My name at birth was Piroska Weinstein. I later changed my name to Pircha (in Hebrew) or Perry (in English). I was only 12 years old in June 1941, when I was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau with my father, stepmother and sister, Aviva. Later, I was sent to Bergen-Belsen and then to Rochlitz camp to work in an airplane factory. In 1945, because of air raids, we were taken on a Death March. We were all starving, and every day there were fewer of us. Our German guards fled when we were finally liberated by Russian troops. In July, 1945, my sister and I took a train to Budapest where we were reunited with my aunt and uncle.

 

Miskolc, Hungary

Perry Oehlbaum