Testimony of Baruch Weiss, born in Wolchwice, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences during the war

Testimony of Baruch Weiss, born in Wolchwice, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences during the war Family background; room studies; life before the war; good relationship with Christian neighbors; a ban on Jews entering higher education institutions; tailoring studies through protectionism until 1940. Entry of the Hungarians, 1938; enlistment to labor troops and integration of service with studies; news of a deportation and escape with a friend to the Romanian border area, May 1941; passage through fields; getting help from local farmers; seizure by Hungarian officers; transfer to a labor camp in Esztergom, 1944; receipt of a postcard from the family deported to Auschwitz that everything is fine with them; transfer to the Gyor ghetto; going to work in a coal factory; removal from the ghetto on a march to Austria. Liberation; back to Budapest; a meeting with his older brother who had returned from labor camps and a meeting with his sister who survived Auschwitz; life after the war; aliya to Israel; absorption and acclimatization.