Testimony of Shalom Klein, born in Nagy Szolos, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Liebe-Rose, Schwartzheide and Sachsenhausen labor camps

Testimony of Shalom Klein, born in Nagy Szolos, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, Liebe-Rose, Schwartzheide and Sachsenhausen labor camps Very poor family with seven people; father is a clerk; attends a "heder" and a Hungarian school until age 14 and then goes to work; studies in Jewish teachers college in Budapest while working and membership in Hashomer Hatzair; disputes between religious Jews and Zionists. Mutual help with Hungarian Jews at onset of decrees; deportation of people who warned about extermination; detention at the entry of the Germans, 1944; return home and deportation with all the Jews in the area; the appearance of a messenger in the ghetto disguised as a German soldier, who came to warn about the upcoming extermination, and his utter rejection by the Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; selection and two weeks in the Gypsy camp; transfer with his father to the Liebe-Rose labor camp, June 1944; labor digging, and his father's death; transfer to Schwartzheide camp; labor in the bombed Brabag factory; wounded; transfer to Sachsenhausen, April 1945; liberation by the Polish brigade of the Red Army. Return home via Prague; move to Budapest; joining Hashomer Hatzair and going to agricultural training where they hid Romanian refugees; crossing the border with help of Aliya Bet, via Vienna, Bratislava and Italy; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption in Kibbutz Givat Oz.