Testimony of Herzel Iczkovics, born in Kökényes, Hungary in 1912, regarding his experiences during service in a labor battalion in Kassa, and in Siegendorf, Mauthausen and Günskirchen camps

Herzel Iczkovics, born 1912 in Kokenyes - Testimony taken by the Degob Commission on his fate in Hungary and Austria. Eenlistment to the labor camp in Kassa, where he spent a year; transfer to Ukraine; return to Hungary as Soviet front drew near; handing over to the Germans and transfer to Siegendorf; life in work camp - fairly good treatment, malnutrition, forced labor in digging trenches; sent on death-march: regular beatings, exhaustion, famine, many deaths; later transport by wagons: over two hundred in each, little food and many death cases; arrival in Mauthausen; life in concentration camp:abuse and mistreatment, many beatings by SS, causing death, sleeping outdoors, death-rate 100-150 per day; death march to Gunskirchen; life in Gunskirchen: terrible appearnce of inmates, overcrowded accommodation, hardly any food, hard cases of malnutrition and related diseases, exceptionally high death rate, corpses everywhere; liberation by American forces.