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Eliezer Laslo Zelfroind

Testimony
Testimony of Eliezer Laslo Zelfroind, born in Nagyhalasz, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Nagyhalasz Ghetto, Buna-Monowitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other places Life before the war; attends a Hebrew school; learns in various yeshivas in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. German occupation, March 1944; deportation to the Nagyhalasz Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; camp life including labor in a labor unit for fine mechanics; relations with the Jewish Kapo; contact with British POWs; encounter with antisemitic Polish prisoners; death march; transfer to various camps in Germany; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including an attempted uprising and hanging of inmates charged with collecting weapons; transfer to Dachau; liberation by the US Army. Typhus; hospitalization; return to Hungary; aliya to Israel, 1948.
item Id
4708008
First Name
Eliezer
Laslo
Last Name
Zelfroind
Date of Birth
1925
Place of Birth
Nagyhalasz, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
06/01/04
Date of Creation - latest
06/01/04
Name of Submitter
זלפרוינד אליעזר לסלו
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection