In August 1944, Bitton-Jackson and her mother were taken from Auschwitz to a factory in the German city of Augsburg. After two months at Plaszow, they returned to Auschwitz. If they did not work properly, or violated any rule, they would be beaten by their Kapo or his assistants. There, their work consisted of planierung - leveling off a hilltop in preparation for construction. In June 1944, Bitton-Jackson and her mother were transferred, along with 500 other women, to Plaszow, a forced labor camp near Kraków. She and her mother stayed there for ten days. Two weeks after her father was taken, Bitton-Jackson, her aunt, mother, and brother were removed from the ghetto and taken to Dunajska Streda, a town in Slovakia and then to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp built by the Germans in occupied Poland. In Ghetto Nagymagyar, all men between the ages of 18 and 45, her father included, were sent to a forced labor camp in Komárom, some fifty miles (80 km) from the ghetto. Two months into the German occupation, all the Jews in that area were moved to Ghetto Nagymagyar.

Jews were prohibited from entering theaters, restaurants, grocery stores, and other public places.

In Somorja, the segregation of Jews began rapidly when the Germans invaded Hungary in 1944. Elli was born in Samorin, Czechoslovakia on February 28, 1931, the second child to Laura and Markus Friedman, but in 1938, Hungarian troops occupied Samorin, renaming it Somorja.

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