Draft memoirs of George A. Floris, born in Subotica in 1917, about his experiences in the Hungarian Army labor battalions and forced labor in Austria and Germany, 1943–1945

Draft memoirs of George A. Floris, born in Subotica in 1917, about his experiences in the Hungarian Army labor battalions and forced labor in Austria and Germany, 1943–1945 Witness is the offspring of a Jewish father who out-converted and of a non-Jewish mother; childhood in Subotica and Budapest; Catholic upbringing; attends a Christian school in Budapest; anti-Jewish decrees from 1938 on; witness inducted into Hungarian Army labor battalions in 1943; Germany occupies Hungary in March 1944; witness sent to forced labor near Vienna in late 1944; escapes from forced labor and attempts to reach the Swiss border; arrested in Rosenheim; conceals his Jewish origin; taken to refugee center in Dachau; applies to join the Waffen SS in hopes of reaching the front and surrendering to the Allies; forced labor at a BMW plant in Allach; notice of approval of his joining the Waffen SS before the end of the war (official approval has not yet arrived); attempts to enter the Zeilsheim displaced-persons camp in summer 1945; survivors treat him with hostility; witness banished from the DP camp; moves to England; lives in England; lives in India from 1958 on. Also in the file: letters from Association of Nazi Camp Survivors to George A. Floris, from February 1961 (memoirs written for the Association). Submitter's remarks: The submitter's father, George A. Floris, reached England after the war with the help of his mother. His father, Dr. Adorjan Schaffer, perished in Budapest in March 1945.