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Edith was born on Purim 1921, in Selesc, Czechoslovakia. Witnessing Hungarian troops murdering her family, she hid in a forest, but was arrested in 1941. In the Chust Ghetto, she was forced to be a domestic maid for SS officers until 1943. Sent to Boitzenberg as a slave laborer, Edith lost part of her hand while building aircraft parts. In 1945, she was deported to Auschwitz for liquidation. Discarded among the corpses, she was saved by Soviet liberators. From our Eema, we learned to appreciate the smallest of life’s gifts. She recalled all the loving aspects of her shtetl life. She especially remembers holidays, her mother’s cooking and sharing food with all her neighbors, Jew and non-Jew.
Selesc, Czechoslovakia
Edith [Hershkovitz] Danko