"We were deported in a cattle car. We had been traveling for three days when the train stopped. I suddenly heard someone shouting in German: “Get off!” I looked out of the cattle car and saw how the SS were beating people up, so that they would get off the train faster. A woman taking care of her children was walking too slowly; the SS took her baby and threw it on a truck. Old and sick people were also thrown on the truck. They would be immediately gassed"
Born near Bratislava in 1929, Eduard Kornfeld was deported to Auschwitz and other concentration camps; he survived a death march from Kaufbeuren to Dachau. When he was freed from the Dachau concentration camp by American troops on April 29, 1945, he weighed only 60 pounds. His mother Rosa (37 years old), his father Simon (44 years old), and his siblings Hilda (11 years old), Josef (9 years old), Alexander (7 years old) and Rachel (4 years old) had been deported and murdered in the gas chambers. Kornfled arrived in Switzerland in 1949 and spent four years in Davos where he was treated and cured of tuberculosis. He later did an apprenticeship as a jewel setter. He has two sons, a daughter, and seven grandchildren.