Mordekhai Stefan Hershkovitz

Testimony of Mordeai Stefan Herskovits, born in Oradea, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna-Monowitz, Gdow and other places Life before the war; his father is the head of the Jewish community in Borod; family move to Bratca. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1940; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto, March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; transfer to Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz with his father; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; camp life including labor in a factory that processes crude oil products; escape to Gdow; escape to Nowy Sacz; escape to Oradea via Czechoslovakia; receives letters from his mother in Sweden and brother in the Soviet Union. Escape to Budapest with help from Bericha; founds a kibbutz; aliya to Eretz Israel from Marseilles, 1948.