Testimony of Pinkhas Kon Kohen, born in Kisrozvagy, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, the Auschwitz, Warsaw, and Muehldorf camps, and more

Testimony of Pinkhas Kon Kohen, born in Kisrozvagy, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, the Auschwitz, Warsaw, and Muehldorf camps, and more From an observant family in Kisrozvagy; life at home and life of the Jewish community; learning in a heder and in a [Hungarian] school; family livelihood from the family store; anti-Jewish legislation, 1938; antisemitic events; deportation of his father to labor battalions; his father's arrival on home visits from time to time; helping his mother in the store in ordering merchandise; trips to suppliers to bring merchandise to the store; prohibition on selling cigarettes; modest celebration of his Bar-Mitzvah; starting his learning at a yeshiva; escape to residence in his aunt's house; visits home approximately twice a year; return to the family home after a few years of yeshiva learning; managing the grocery store; chopping down and cutting up trees for heating; German occupation, March 1944; persecution of the Hungarian Jews; yellow badge; prohibitions on the use of public transportation; roundup of the Jews in the Town Hall; deportation of the Jews to the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto; life for a time in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life for a few days; transfer to a camp on the area of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto;; camp life with his father, brothers and uncles; transfer to forced labor; observance of Jewish holidays in the camp; transfer to the Muehldorf camp; transfer to forced labor constructing an underground air field; work in shifts; hunger; stealing in the bunks; transfer to work in the camp clinic (Revier); transfer to sanitation labor; evacuation of the camp on trains; liberation by the US Army by train. Return to Hungary; arrival at Kisrozvagy; reunion with his brothers; information regarding the murder of his mother and sisters; life after the war; rehabilitation of the family grocery store; crossing the border into Slovakia illegally; trip to Eretz Israel that lasted about six months; aliya to Israel, 15 May 1949; absorption.