Artur Henig

Testimony of Artur Honig, born in Kecerovske Peklany, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in various camps, Banska Bystrica, the Czech Army and with the partisans Life before the war; attends school; move to Presov; Jewish community; membership in the Maccabi movement; ban on Jewish activities. Draft to a labor camp, 1941; transfer to various labor camps; camp life; deportation of his sisters to Auschwitz; escape from a labor camp to Banska Bystrica; draft into the underground Czech Army; joins the partisans; Slovak National Uprising; defeat of Banska Bystrica; suppression of the Slovak National Uprising by the Germans; retreat to the mountains and life in hiding; contact with partisan groups; receives an award of honor; liberation. Life in Kosice; reunion with his sister who survived; move to Prague; studies; adopts an assumed name; aliya to Israel, 1949; marriage, 1952.