Testimony of David Fuchs, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences at forced labor in Faczanopuszta and Sashalom

Testimony of David Fuchs, born in Surany, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Faczanopuszta and Sashalom Religious poor family; business in trade; membership in Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; attends a Talmud Torah; work as an apprentice in a shop in Surany; move to Komjatice; move to Komarno; work in a textile vocational school and activities in Hashomer Hatzair. Annexation to Hungary; dismissal from work; mutual help in the community; loss of the shop and help from the family; drafted to forced labor, winter 1939; deportation to Faczanopuszta, spring 1940; labor dismantling a wired fence field; redrafted, 1942; labor in Sashalom; labor in a garage; labor digging ditches; clearing rubble and corpses during the air-raids; labor as the personal valet in the commanders home; air-raids by the US Army Air Forces; escape with the help of the commander's wife, October 1944; contact with the Jewish community in Budapest; receives a Swiss protective document.