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Aranka Siegal (Aranka Davidowitz, born June 10, 1930 Beregszász, Czechoslovakia (present-day Berehove, Ukraine) Aranka (Ary) was living with her family in Hungary when World War II broke out. In 1944 her family was forcibly moved to the Ghetto in Budapest and sent by train to Auschwitz. On arrival her father and baby brother were taken away and murdered. Her mother and younger sister were also separated and never seen again. Ary was with her older sister Iboya (we knew as Viola) when they came before Dr Josef Mengele, who conducted the selections at Auschwitz. She was about 13 at the time. Dr Mengele ordered her to the left, which meant the gas chamber. Normally an SS man was right there to move the person to the left or right, but in this case the guard was not there – there was a gap of perhaps 30 seconds. Ary started to move to the left, but her sister was right behind her holding her hand very tightly and would not let go. In that gap, an older woman behind them grabbed her by the shoulder and shoved Ary and her sister to the right – to be slaves – and then pushed another young girl to the left to take her place. Ary and Viola were sent to work in the camp kitchen and eventually survived. She came to America in 1948 where she married my Uncle Gilbert and had 2 children, Joseph and Risa. About 30 years later she and my parents were at a fund raiser for the Hospital Ship City of Hope at a New York City hotel. She was at the front of the room when she saw an older woman being pushed in a wheelchair. They locked eyes and she went to the woman. In Hungarian she asked “Were you at Auschwitz?” the woman answered “Yes”. Ary then asked “Do you remember me?”and again, the woman answered “Yes” .

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