Joseph Moskovich Shvartz

Testimony of Joseph Shvartz Moskovich, born in Ketergen, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Ketergen Ghetto, Dora and Bergen-Belsen The family owns a tavern, grocery store and import tobacco; life before the war; relations with the Hungarian population. Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish legislation; deportation of his father by Hungarian gendarmes; return of his father; confiscation of the tavern and revocation of the license to import tobacco, 1939; confiscation of the grocery store; temporary work in agriculture; termination of studies in Hungarian schools, 1943; German occupation, 1944; confiscation of silver and gold; deportation to the Ketergen Ghetto to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Dora; camp life and labor building; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by the British Army. Reunion with his mother and sister; return to Ketergen; aliya to Israel, 1949.