Zsuzsa Maszler 'Expositur Wien' certificate

This is a certificate I received from the Joint Distribution Committee in Vienna on my way home from the concentration camp. It proves that I was in Mauthausen and that I was liberated by the American army. When the Hungarian fascists took power in October 1944, we young people were marched to one of the train stations, crammed into wagons and sent off to Ravensbruck. Then those who were in condition to work were taken to the Messerschmitt factory. My sister, Judit, and I worked in the turnery until the middle of April. Then we were deported, weak and ill with typhoid, to Mauthausen. One day, someone came running and shouting, 'Hey, Hungarians, we are liberated!' Judit and I spent three months in the hospital in Guzen, Germany after the Americans liberated us. We left the hospital when the Russians took it over from the Americans. Judit married in 1948. She has a son, Gyuri. When he was at university, he went to Japan to study Chinese and Japanese, and he never came back. He now lives in Australia.