Testimony of Yzchak Altwer, born in Mindszent, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Szeged ghetto, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Melk, and Mauthausen camps, and on the death march

Testimony of Yzchak Altwer, born in Mindszent, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Szeged ghetto, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Melk, and Mauthausen camps, and on the death march The immediate family; his father's livelihood; studies at school; their way of life and holidays at home; the Jewish community; neighborly relations; relatives who perished; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow badge; the closing of his father’s factory. The entry of the Germans into Hungary; turning the schools into hospitals; deportation to the ghetto; living conditions in the ghetto; the agreeable attitude of the commander; deportation in boxcars to Szeged; Shavuot in the ghetto; concentration of the Jews in a brick factory; living conditions in Szeged; deportation of the Jews to Birkenau in boxcars; the Szolnok transportation center; conditions in the boxcars; the attempt at suicide; entry into the Birkenau camp; meeting an inmate; life in Birkenau; the Gypsy camp; measuring the height of the children; being saved from the gas chambers by a miracle; the tattooing of a number on his forearm; suffering from an ear infection; the throwing of children off a truck into a fiery pit; arrival in Auschwitz; the death march; finding the body of a woman with a fetus beside her; the trip by open boxcars to Mauthausen, and from there to Melk; cannibalism; burying bodies in a common grave; air raids over Linz; the stay on barges on the river; liberation. The way home; meeting his father; joining a Zionist youth organization; the move to Italy; sailing for Israel; enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces; serving in the armored corps; marriage, 1952; starting a family.