Judith Szentivanyi was born in Miskolc, Hungary, in 1928. Conditions for Jews in her city remained stable from 1939 until March 1944, when the Germans invaded. That summer, Szentivanyi and her mother and sister were taken to a local brick factory, where they were detained for several days before being taken on a train to Auschwitz. At that point her mother and sister were taken away to the gas chambers, while Szentivanyi was taken to the Plaszow work camp. In January 1945 Plaszow was closed and the prisoners returned to Auschwitz. This time Szentivanyi was there for several months before being taken to Parschnitz, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, where she worked in the AEG factory. After being liberated by the Russians, Szentivanyi returned to Hungary, where she was reunited with her father and her aunt. She and her husband, Andor Szentivanyi, were married in 1948. They left Hungary in 1956 and came to the United States, where both worked in the medical field.
Judith Szentivanyi
| Gender: Female | Camps: Auschwitz, Birkenau |
| Date of Birth: April 4, 1928 | Collection ID: - |
| Location(s): Auschwitz, Poland | |
Judith Szentivanyi (nee Szasz) describes selections at Auschwitz.