Testimony of Menachem Mendel Ganz, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Ternovo, labor battalions in Torokbalint, Taksony, Kosice and various places in Hungary

Testimony of Menachem Mendel Ganz, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in Ternovo, labor battalions in Torokbalint, Taksony, Kosice and various places in Hungary Life in Ternovo; hunger, 1933; yeshiva studies in Galanta; return to Ternovo. Hardships under Hungarian rule, 1940; rescued from deportation to Galicia, 1942; drafted to a Hungarian Army labor camp and deportation to Kosice; transfer to Szolnok via Sighet, and Debrecen one month later; labor; transfer to Taksony; labor laying railroad tracks to Torokbalint; Hungarian cruelty in the camp; relations between the Jews; transfer to the Galician front, late 1943; labor constructing an airfield and digging anti-tank trenches; the black market; German military rule in the camp; retreat; escape to Bilke, Ternovo and then to Bucuresti. Joins a Poalei Agudat Israel kibbutz near Bucuresti; marriage, September 1945; aliya to Eretz Israel, October 1945.