Memoirs of Moshe Mozes Taler, born in Stropkov in 1917, about his experiences in the Sixth Battalion in Slovakia from 1940 on, escaping from the battalion, hiding in Stropkov and Budapest, and imprisonment in Sopron until liberation in 1945

Memoirs of Moshe Mozes Taler, born in Stropkov in 1917, about his experiences in the Sixth Battalion in Slovakia from 1940 on, escaping from the battalion, hiding in Stropkov and Budapest, and imprisonment in Sopron until liberation in 1945 - forcible hacking of Mozes Taler's beard and sidelocks on a military base in 1942, as told by Jakob (Eugen) Jakubovič, who was at the base when it happened; - memoirs of Moshe Moses Tahler, documented from his telephone conversation with Uri Jakubovič (Jakob Jakubovič's son) in 1998: Inducted into the Sixth Battalion in February 1940; pausing in Cemerne; moving to Ružomberok and thence to Lab; assigned to digging drainage ditches; moving to a brickyard in Devínska Nová Ves; escaping from the battalion and reaching Stropkov; hiding in an overhead pantry with non-Jewish neighbors along with brother, Pinchas Taler, later shot to death in Debrecen while attempting to escape; escaping to Hungary in early 1944; hiding in a bunker in Budapest in late 1944–early 1945; capture of group hiding in the bunker and prosecution of the witness before a field tribunal; placed in a prison on Sopron; liberated by Red Army forces. - forcible hacking of Mozes Taler's beard and sidelocks on a military base in 1942, as told by Jakob (Eugen) Jakubovič, who was at the base when it happened; - memoirs of Moshe Moses Tahler, documented from his telephone conversation with Uri Jakubovič (Jakob Jakubovič's son) in 1998: Inducted into the Sixth Battalion in February 1940; pausing in Cemerne; moving to Ružomberok and thence to Lab; assigned to digging drainage ditches; moving to a brickyard in Devínska Nová Ves; escaping from the battalion and reaching Stropkov; hiding in an overhead pantry with non-Jewish neighbors along with brother, Pinchas Taler, later shot to death in Debrecen while attempting to escape; escaping to Hungary in early 1944; hiding in a bunker in Budapest in late 1944–early 1945; capture of group hiding in the bunker and prosecution of the witness before a field tribunal; placed in a prison on Sopron; liberated by Red Army forces.