Dov Kesner

Testimony of Dov Kesner, born in Viseul de Sus, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Viseul de Sus and Hungarian labor battalions in Poland and the Soviet Union Life before the war; his father was a combat soldier in World War I; Jewish community. Draft to Hungarian Army labor battalions; forced labor; attitude of his commanders; deportation of his mother to Auschwitz; witness' transfer to Poland; life in various labor camps in Poland; lack of ability to keep the religious commandments; transfer on foot to the area of the Soviet Union; life in various camps; liberation, September 1944. Move to Warsaw; move to Budapest; reunion with friends; aliya to Eretz Israel via Turkey, late 1944; reunion with his sister in Israel.