Yeshayahu Yosef Reis

Testimony of Yeshayahu Yosef Rays, born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Komarno, Papa, Sopron and Schattendorf Family with hardships; his father is a ritual slaughterer and cantor; life in Cuz before the war; education in Nove Zamky; death of his mother; change in the attitude of the authorities toward the Jews. Draft to labor battalions; German occupation, 1944; rescue from kidnapping by the Germans; deportation to the Sevlus Ghetto; transfer to Komarno; camp life including labor and observance of the religious commandments; wanderings between villages with the labor battalion; transfer to Papa; transfer to Sopron; transfer by the German police in Austria; transfer to Scattendorf; camp life including labor digging anti-tank trenches; typhus; liberation by the Red Army. Displays of antisemitism; wanderings from place to place; reunion with his sister; move to Feldafing DP camp; life with the Bnei Akiva movement's Tirat Zvi group; move to France; aliya attempt on the "Yagur" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Atlit; release.