Testimony of Ivan Jungwirth, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1918, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Dachau

Testimony of Ivan Jungwirth, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1918, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Dachau Life before the war; activities in the Jewish community; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. meets Jewish refugees from Austria; draft into the Yugoslavian Army, 1938; German captivity; escape and return to Zagreb; life under German occupation including persecution, during the year 1942; smuggling of the family into Italy; life using forged documents; arrest by the Ustasha security police; prison life; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including forced labor in the Union ammunitions factory; transfer to Gross-Rosen camp; camp life including illness and help from a German physician; death march to Dachau, January 1945; camp life; transfer to Mittenwald camp; camp life including labor digging pits; liberation; Convalescence; work as a translator for the Americans and hunt for war criminals; return to Yugoslavia; work for the Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; aliya to Israel, 1951; work as a photographer preparing material for the Eichmann Trial.