Testimony of Izhak Klein, born in Zsolcza, 1930, regarding his experiences in Miskolc, labor battalions in Bozsok and a death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps

Testimony of Izhak Klein, born in Zsolcza, 1930, regarding his experiences in Miskolc, labor battalions in Bozsok and a death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps Move to Miskolc for financial reasons; attends a Jewish school and "heder"; activities in the Bnei Akiva youth movement. Deportation to the Miskolc Ghetto after German occupation, 1944; ghetto life; volunteers to a labor battalion; travel to Oroszvar with help from a Hungarian officer named Dkart Kalman; labor; labor digging anti-tank trenches in Bozsok; approach of the front; death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps; help from the Red Cross; liberation by the US Army. Medical treatment in Wels; move to Modena with help from Jewish Brigade soldiers; treatment by UNRRA; joins a group of young Jews in Piazzatore; move to the Salvino orphanage; help from their youth leaders, Reuven Donat and Moshe Zeiri; aliya via Bari to Eretz Israel on the "Chaim Arlozorov" ship, 1947; capture by the British; detention camps in Cyprus; release with help from Youth Aliyah and aliya to Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin; joins Kibbutz Zeelim.