Testimony of Dov Perl Peer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and camps in Germany

Testimony of Dov Perl Peer, born in Sighet, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in labor battalions and camps in Germany Life in Somcuta Mare; poor religious family; education. Hungarian occupation, 1940; restrictions on Jews; dormitory for Jewish youth and vocational studies in metalworking; work in Budapest, 1943; return to Somcuta Mare, February 1944; draft to a labor battalion, April 1944; labor in Nagy-Kata and Hortiliget in Hungary; labor in a factory assembling aircraft; Allied air-raids; transfer to Csepel to a weapons factory; activities in an anti-government group; informed on; torture; deportation to Dachau, April 1944; labor with political prisoners; labor in a tank parts factory in Augsburg; labor in an aircraft factory in Leonberg; sabotage while at labor; transfer to a camp for sick inmates in Vaihingen an Enz; typhus; survival until liberation by the French army, April 1945. Executions of prisoners; hospitalization; return home with his brother; departs to Budapest; heads an aliya training farm in Mentelek; aliya via Zadar, Yugoslavia; aliya attempt by illegal immigration on the "Knesset Israel" ship; deportation to Cyprus after a struggle against the British; marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel and detention in Atlit camp, October 1947; IDF service; absorption and rehabilitation.