Yoel Otto Elitzur Hershkovitz

Testimony of Joel Otto Hershkovitz Elizur, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, the Glass House in Budapest and other places Life before the war; relations with the local population; learns in a yeshiva. German occupation, March 1944; draft to a labor battalion; forced labor preparing a field for firing ranges and evacuation of apartments in the Salgotarjan Ghetto; obtains protective passports; return to Budapest; life in the "Glass House"; Hungarians break into the Glass House and are distanced away by diplomats; liberation by the Red Army. Return home; obtains a temporary passport; move to Vienna; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.