Testimony of Andor Hauer, born in Nagytapolcsány, Hungary in 1911, regarding his experiences in Ózd, in a labor battalion in the Carpathian Ruthenia area, in Szombathely, and in Schachendorf and other places

Testimony of Andor Hauer, born in Nagytapolcsány, Hungary in 1911, regarding his experiences in Ózd, in a labor battalion in the Carpathian Ruthenia area, in Szombathely, and in Schachendorf and other places Work in Ózd as a teacher as of 1941; life in Ózd with 1,200 Jews; German occupation, 1944; payment of a bribe to the authorities by well-to-do Jews in exchange of receiving a privileged treatment before the establishment of the ghetto; transfer to forced labor in service in a labor battalion; transfer to the Carpathian Ruthenia area; receipt of inhuman treatment by the Hungarian soldiers; typhus disease; cannons and wagons are dragged by forced laborers instead of horses; hospitalization in a hospital in Tiszaújlak; theft of his belongings by Arrow Cross Party men and transfer to gendarmes; transfer to Szombathely; transfer to Kőszeg; labor in Kőszeg, clearing a forest; residence in a barracks; receipt of terrible food and cruel treatment; life along with 2,000 laborers in overcrowded conditions; they wash themselves in the forest; suffering from lice; many forced laborers are sick with typhus disease; death of laborers; lack of medical care; transfer to Schachendorf in December 1944; life in Schachendorf camp, located 16 kilometers from Kőszeg; receipt of a more humane treatment; decent treatment by the German Lagerführer; labor digging fortifications; they are handed over to the Wehrmacht in late March 1945; approach of the Red Army; evacuation of the camp in late March 1945; transfer of the healthy inmates to an unknown place, while the sick inmates remain in the camp; liberation by the Red Army; Interviewer: Lilly Reiner.