Alice Lok Cahana
In 1944 when Germany occupied Hungary, Alice Lok Cahana along with many Hungarians were deported to Auschwitz. During her time there, she was selected for the gas chamber but survived because of malfunction. As Allied forces started to make their way to the camp, Alice and the other prisoners were sent to Guben Labor Camp. Alice managed to escape while they were forced to march from the camp, but was later found and sent off to Bergen- Belsen. After arriving there she described it as hell on earth. “Nothing ever in literature could compare to anything what Bergen-Belsen was. When we arrived, the dead were not carried away any more, you stepped over them, you fell over them if you couldn't walk. There were agonizing...people begging for water. They were falling...falling into planks that they were not pulled together in the barracks. They were crying, they were begging. It was, it was hell. It was hell.” She stayed at Bergen Belsen until the camp was liberated and eventually immigrated to the United States after the war ended.