Testimony of Yosef Eliahu Roth, born Foldes, Hungary, 1914, regarding his experiences in Hungarian Army labor battalions

Testimony of Yosef Eliahu Roth, born Foldes, Hungary, 1914, regarding his experiences in Hungarian Army labor battalions His family; learns in yeshivas; Rabbi Pope; draft into the Hungarian Army, 1937-1939; participation in the annexation of southern Slovakia to Hungary, 1938. Deportation of Jews to Slovakia; draft into the military reserves and participation in the annexation of northern Transylvania, 1940; draft to a labor camp in Satoralyaulyhely, 1941; labor to prepare the construction of an airfield; rumors concerning the murder of Jews in pits that had been dug by the Jews; draft to a military supply unit in Kosice, November 1942; transfer to Sighet; torture of Sighet's well-to-do people, 1944; deportation of the local Jews to the Sighet Ghetto, April 1944; smuggles food into the ghetto with friends; throws food to Jews on deportation trains; labor building for the Wehrmacht under the supervision of a Hungarian commander named Milankovich, in a tent camp in Kosice named Sator Tabor, July 1944; concentration of Jewish property by members of the labor battalion and selling it to non-Jews; labor on a farm, October-November 1944; advance of the Red Army and retreat of the Germans; transfer to Balassagyarmat; liberation by the Red Army, December 1944. Return to Budapest; storming of Budapest by the Red Army; return to Nagykallo; en route to Italy via Austria and Germany, with Bericha, June 1946; marriage; sets sail on the "Lo Tafhidunu" ship, aliya attempt, and deportation to Cyprus by the British.