Testimony of Yitzhak Bronstein, born in Izky, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Izky, the Iza Ghetto and Gusen, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps

Testimony of Yitzhak Bronstein, born in Izky, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Izky, the Iza Ghetto and Gusen, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps His childhood in Izky. Annexation to Hungary; shortages; deportation of Jews without Hungarian citizenship to Poland; draft of his father to forced labor; witness' expulsion from the school; round-up of Jews in the local school, April 1944; deportation to the Iza Ghetto, approximately one week later; deportation to Auschwitz, approximately two weeks later; labor as an assistant in service to the block, Stubedienst; transfer to Gusen camp, October 1944; labor in a Messerschmitt factory; transfer to the tent camp in Mauthausen, April 1945; march to Gunskirchen for four days; death of many marchers; liberation. Reunion with his sister in Budapest; travel to Austria; move to a refugee camp in Modena; aliya training in the Salerno area; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel.