Yehuda Kahana

Testimony of Yehuda Kahana, born in Halmeu, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in a Hungarian labor battalion in the Kiev area, Doroshich and as a POW in Soviet captivity Life before the war; learns in yeshivas; community life; membership in youth organizations; arrival of refugees from Poland; military service as a cavalryman in the Romanian Army; displays of antisemitism in the army. Re-annexation to Hungary; drafted into a labor battalion, 1942; life in the battalion including forced labor and typhus; transfer in the direction of Kiev on foot; concentration of the Jews in stables in Doroshich; saved from being murdered in the stables; taken captive by the Soviet Army; life in a POW camp in Ukraine including vocational studies; labor as a foreman; release from captivity, 1948. Aliya to Israel, 1949.