Testimony of Yitzhak Weisz Livnat, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the children's block in Auschwitz and a death march

Testimony of Yitzhak Weisz Livnat, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in the children's block in Auschwitz and a death march Zionist family; his father manages a farm for a Hungarian noble; family with five children; attends a Hebrew elementary school and a Hungarian high school. German occupation, March 1944; deportation with his family to the ghetto, April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in a cattle car with all his family members, except for his eldest brother who was drafted to a labor battalion; separation from his family; life in the children's block; survives three "Aktions"; labor as a shoe polisher for a Kapo; decoration of the yard with flowers and red bricks on his own initiative; death march to Mauthausen, January 1945; meets his father; continuation of the death march to Gunskirchen; typhus; liberation. Move to an American hospital; death of his father; life in a children's home in Salvino for approximately two months; aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Shoshana" ship and "Shabbetai Lozinski" ship on his 17th birthday, 12 March 1947.