Zakharia Zoltan Shimon Simon

Testimony of Zechrya Zoltan Simon, born in Valea Lui Mihai, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion, Slovakia and Sopron Life before the war; community life; learns in a public school, "heder" and various yeshivas. Outbreak of the war; drafted into pre-army military training; displays of antisemitism; arrival of refugees from Poland; re-annexation to Hungary; drafted into a labor battalion, 1942; transfer to the Carpathian Mountains; life in the Carpathian Mountains including forced labor; transfer to Slovakia; transfer to Sopron; life in Sopron including typhus; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Budapest; return home; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.