THREE YEARS WITHOUT A HOLOCAUST NAME

On March 27, 1942, a train entered the gates of the Auschwitz camp with 999 young women from Slovakia on it, who were thought to have arrived at a labor camp for a three-month stay. For most of them, this was the first trip outside the borders of their country. This shipment would later be defined as the first transport that arrived at Auschwitz as part of the final solution. The iconic tattoo, the selection at the station, all these have not yet happened. Most of these women were murdered within a few months; And three years later, in the last days of the camp, only five women remained from the first transport, who were even condemned to survive the death marches from Auschwitz to Germany. Yuliya Shkodova, who was born as Joci Poldi in August 1914 in the town of Levo?a in eastern Slovakia, is one of those women. A few years after the liberation, she put her stories into writing, and her heart-pounding story is being published in Hebrew for the first time. Three years without a name -