Testimony of Shmuel Bogler, born in Bodrogkeresztur, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Bodrogkeresztur Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitztreben, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Shmuel Bogler, born in Bodrogkeresztur, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Bodrogkeresztur Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitztreben, Buchenwald and other places Religious family with many children; displays of antisemitism; deportation of his father to a detention camp following false stories, 1942. German occupation, 19 March 1944; anti-Jewish decrees including forced wearing of the yellow badge, April 1944; concentration in the Bodrogkeresztur Ghetto with the Jews; transfer to Satoralyaulyhely; deportation on the second transport to Auschwitz, May 1944; camp life including selection by Mengele, June 1944; separation with his brother from their parents; smuggle of tefillin; burning of people; transfer to Kittlitztreben, June 1944; camp life with appproximately 1,500 Polish and Hungarian forced laborers; life in barracks number seven and then in barracks number nine; labor in construction, uprooting trees, laying railroad tracks and in a kitchen of the German Army; smuggle of food; prayers on Shabbat and religious holidays; musical activities under the leadership of violinist Orenstein from Poland; death march to Buchenwald, 01 April 1945; camp life, from March 1945; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization of his brother in a hospital following intestinal typhus disease; return to Budapest, May 1945.