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Declaration
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Narrative: Imy (Irma) was born in Lugoj, Romania (or. Austro-Hungarian empire). She lived in Timisoara then in Cluj-Napoca. Her last domicile prior to deportation was in Cluj. She was in captivity from May 17, 1944 to May 5, 1945. By the time she deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland), she was married but had no child. Her husband was killed in Auschwitz upon arrival and Imy was selected to work. In the camp, she worked in the “shit commando”, empty human excrements from the latrines, she also was made to dig with pickets holes in the ground. She became a liaison officer, doing some translation work. At the end of the war she was deported to Mauthausen (Austria), where she was liberated by the US Armed forces. Imy’s parents stayed in Romania and were not deported. After Liberation, Imy worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) with the US Army, doing clerical work and translation for a Colonel. She was fluent in English as she was given private lessons before the war. She immigrated to Canada in 1946.
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Eidesstattliche ErklaerungIch, Irma Nemenoff verwitwete Halmos geborene Rothmueller, bin am26. September 1914 als Tochter von Julius und Margit Rothmueller inLugos, damals Oesterreich-Ungarn, zur Welt gekommen. Im Jahre 1936heiratete ich Herrn Stefan Halmos und zog nach Klausenburg, damalsRumaenien.Mein Mann war Leiter der Buchhandlung "Ellenzek" in Klausenburg seitden Jahre 1926 und bezog dort ein sehr gutes Gehalt. Sein Vertrag mitder Firma war unkuendbar.Ab 3. April 1944 wurde mein Mann ( wie auch ich ) gezwungen, den Judenstern zu tragen. Er behielt jedoch seine Stelle weiter. Am AnfangMai 1944 wurde er von seiner Arbeitsstelle im Auftrage der Gestapo verhaftet und mit mir zusammen in ein Sammellager ausserhalb vonKlausenburg gebracht. Am 9. Juni 1944 wurden wir zusammen im plom-bierten Viehwagen nach Auschwitz transportiert, wo wir am 11. Juni1944 ankamen.Da Mein Mann Invalide war und seine rechte Hand verkrueppelt war,wurde er bei der ersten Selektion sofort nach Ankunft vergast.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
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