Testimony of Yaakov Veis, born in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitzstreben and a death march

Testimony of Yaakov Veis, born in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kittlitzstreben and a death march His father's work and connections with the local non-Jews; his grandfather Avraham Veis was brought by Rothschild to Eretz Israel as an oenologist, 1921; life in Satoraljaujhely; famous Torah scholars. Detention of Jewish refugees from Poland and their imprisonment in Kistarcsa; help from the witness' father and the Joint to provide fruit and kosher food to the imprisoned Jews; witness' education. German occupation and restrictions on the Jews, 19 March 1944; deportation of the Jews from the surrounding area to a ghetto, April 1944; appearance of Dr. Kasztner in the ghetto and his words to the Jews; visit by Eichmann to the ghetto and the fear among the Jews; deportation of his family to Auschwitz on the third transport, June 1944; transfer to Kittlitzstreben camp with two of his brothers; labor with his family; beatings and hanging of Jews; distress and hunger in the camp; evacuation of the camp due to the approach of the Red Army front, February 1945; his brother Moshe Yehuda joins the death march and his brother's disappearance; liberation by the Red Army, 10 February 1945. Wanderings with his brother Zvi and his father; arrival to Slutsk and work for the Red Army; preparation of matzot, Pesach 5705 (1945); return to Budapest and life in Budapest, 1946.