Testimony of Moshe Hamer, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Szolnok

Testimony of Moshe Hamer, born in Debrecen, Hungary, 1924, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Szolnok Only son in a middle-class family; looked after by a German nanny; cultural life; attends a Jewish school and a Jewish high school; studies to become an electrician; draft preparatory course; drafted to forced labor in Szolnok; separation from his parents; labor fixing railroad tracks; labor in a Germany Army hospital; labor as an electrician; death march in the direction of Budapest; liberation by the Red Army on a farm. Collecting corpses of German soldiers; return to Budapest via Bucharest; joins Hanoar Hatzioni youth movement; return to Debrecen; joins the Bericha; organizes groups for aliya to Eretz Israel; help from the JDC to cross to Italy; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; aliya attempt onboard the "Theodore Herzl"; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; starts a family; life on kibbutz and Yesod Hamale.