Testimony of Aharon Arnost Ruzhaner, born in Nagyseles, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Nagyseles Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Kaufering, Landsberg and Dachau

Testimony of Aharon Arnost Ruzhaner, born in Nagyseles, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Nagyseles Ghetto, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Kaufering, Landsberg and Dachau Life before the war; local Ukrainian rule, 1937. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1938; restrictions on the Jews including confiscation of the family's bakery; escape to Budapest, 1939; German occupation, March 1944; restrictions on Jews including yellow badge; kidnappings and ban on travel by train; escape to Nagyseles using a false identity; life in Nagyseles including flogging of community leaders by the German Army; deportation to the Nagyseles Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1944; camp life including separation from his mother; transfer to Warsaw; camp life including clearing the former Warsaw Ghetto; injury; Yom Kippur; death march to Dachau; life on the death march including deaths of prisoners in the river; transfer to Kaufering; transfer to Landsberg; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks; liquidation of the camp and deportation by train; air-raids on the train by the US Army; transfer to Dachau; liberation by the US Army. Return to Nagyseles; aliya to Eretz Israel via Italy, 1946.