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Pearl Levy's oral history describes her life and significant events during World War II. In the Mosonmagyaróvár ghetto, she speaks about specific events she witnessed while in Hungary and her thoughts during the time. At Auschwitz-Birkenau she elaborates on various situations which includes her many jobs, stealing potatoes to survive, her feelings on the death of her parents and sister, escaping Dr. Mengele's death selection, the German kapos, the sonderkommando, roll call, Russian prisoners, clothing, and many more. While at Nuremburg working at the ammunitions factory making airplane motors, she discusses the Allied bombing raids which killed one of her sisters, her attitude on religion during the war, and the improved conditions. Her liberation is also detailed in her interview where she discusses her emotions seeing American soldiers, opinion on reprisal killings, a visit with an American military chaplain, her thoughts on the lesson of the Holocaust and her message to future generations.