Testimony of Gabriel Hofman, born in Chust, 1921, regarding his experiences in his escape to Hungary and in camps

Testimony of Gabriel Hofman, born in Chust, 1921, regarding his experiences in his escape to Hungary and in camps Zionist family; difficulties earning a livelihood; attends "heder" and a state school; head of the local Hapoal Hatzair youth movement; studies tailoring; escape to Hungary; work as a tailor; on an aliya training farm; group is disbanded; drafted to the Hungarian Army, 1942; paves roads near Debrecen; moves from place to place as needed by the Army; receives protective passport through the help of a non-Jewish friend, which permitted him to leave for a Swiss protected house; deportation by train to Buchenwald, winter of 1944; labor digging a subterranean factory; transfer to Flossenburg; harsh attitude; temporary labor; cold, hunger and beatings; labor in a sewing workshop; evacuation to Prague and from there by train to Mauthausen, April 1945; visit to the camp of Hajj Amin al Husseini - the Mufti of Jerusalem - with a group of German Army officers; deteriorates into a Muselmann; description of the camp and the state of the survivors; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Return to Chust; reunion with his sister; marriage; move to Vienna and from there through the Alps to Nonantola in Italty; from there to Genoa; aliya to Eretz Israel with his wife, son and sister onboard the "Kedma" ship.