16.5-year-old Vera was sent to the Szeged ghetto with her family. Soon they were taken to a brick factory where the girls’ and women’s lower bodies were searched by female guards for hidden valuables. Vera’s family were driven to the train by the gendarmes on 25 June, following a roll call. Between 80 and 90 people were crammed into the wagons, and on the way the gendarmes demanded money and valuables from the Jews, threatening to shoot them. They crossed the border at Kassa (Kosice) on the 26th, after which they were looted by German guards. The transport of 3199 people probably arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on the morning of 28 June. During the selection process, Vera pretended to be two years older and was placed with her mother, Etel, among the workers. She spent the next few weeks in the Hungarian Jewish women’s camp in Birkenau (Sector BIIc). On 14 August 1944, they were transferred by a transport of 2,800 prisoners to the concentration camp at Stutthof, where Vera was assigned prisoner number 66505, while her mother, Etel, who was before her on the list, was given a one digit lower number 66504. The Gestapo list of names at the camp is the last document Vera is listed in – it is the last trace of her. Her fate is unknown: we do not know which of the dozens of subcamps in the Stutthof complex she was taken to for slave labor. We do not know where, when or what happened to her. One fact is certain: she did not survive the Holocaust. However, her mother’s name was mentioned in a report from the OT Thorn subcamp at Botten. According to this, Etel Vér died of cardiac arrest (Herzschlag) on 8 October 1944.