53485), was the first of the three women to be sent to Freiberg on a train that left Auschwitz on 31 August 1944. One of 249 primarily Polish Jews, she was accompanied by her sisters Sala, Bala and Ester, still in shock after losing the rest of their family so soon after they reached Auschwitz from Łódź.Priska Löwenbeinová, aged twenty-eight (no. 54194) and designated ‘SJ’ for Slovak Jew, arrived at KZ Freiberg on 12 October 1944. The train that brought her also carried five hundred Czech, German, Slovak, Dutch, Yugoslav, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, American and a few ‘stateless’ women. Priska’s new friend Edita, who’d assured Tibor that she would take care of his wife, was still loyally at her side. Although they didn’t know each other, Priska was on the same transport as twenty-seven-year-old Anka (no. 54243), listed as Czech Jew ‘Hanna’ Nathan, who was accompanied by her friend Mitzka and several Terezín companions.Another transport of 251 mostly Polish Jews had left Birkenau on 22 September.
