Reuven Ernest Gotzegen

Testimony of Reuven Gotzegen, born in Biel, Czechoslovakia in 1926, regarding his experiences in the Satorjaujely ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Dachau camps Childhood before the war; Hungarian annexation of the area in 1938; worsening of the economic situation; escalation of antisemitism; German occupation in 1944; deportation to the Satorjaujely ghetto in April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz for two days in May 1944; transfer to Warsaw to clear rubble from the ghetto until July 1944; approach of the Red Army and death march to Dachau; continuation of death march to Kaufering; work repairing railroad tracks in Munich; hunger; transfer to Landsberg; work at a cement plant; hiding in a peasant's home until late April 1945; liberation by the US Army in May 1945; return to Biel; aliya to Israel in December 1948; absorption and rehabilitation.