Chaim Salom Henrik Hershkovitz

Testimony of Chaim Salom Herskovitz, born in Tornala, Slovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in Budapest, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Life before the war; community life; learns in school and a "heder"; relations with local population. Re-annexation to Hungary; learns in yeshivas; vocational studies; drafted to a labor battalion; labor painting; life in Budapest; Szalasi's fascist regime in Hungary; transfer from place to place; labor loading merchandise on trains; transfer to the Austrian border; march on foot to Mauthausen; meets with his father and brother in Mauthausen; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation, May 1945. Deaths of former inmates from overeating; hospitalization; walk to Vienna; return home; his father's death; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.