Testimony of Tuvia Iunger, born in Ujpest, 1925, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and on the Bericha routes

Testimony of Tuvia Iunger, born in Ujpest, 1925, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and on the Bericha routes Family; learns in a yeshiva and a local high school; works cutting out gloves; obtains citizenship papers for his parents; life until the entry of the Germans. Anti-Jewish legislation issued by Endre Laszlo; labor in construction; deportation of the family to the ghetto, May 1944; drafted to Vac; transfer to Bor, June 1944; labor in building railroad lines within the Innsbruck camp; meets his brother-in-law; attitude of the Hungarian soldiers; retreat in the wake of the approach of the Russian front, September-October 1944; murder of about 3,500 people by SS men in Crvenka; liberation of the labor battalion, approximately 2000 people, by Tito's partisans; receives food and a transit pass to Romania. Receives help from Jews in Bucharest and Timisoara; return to Budapest, February 1945; reunion with his four brothers and sister; joins Dror Habonim, December 1945; helps in transferring orphans to Eretz Israel through the Bericha organization, 1946; sets sail on the ship "Lo Tafchidunu" with his wife and daughter, December 1947; deportation to Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1948.