Testimony of Eliahu Laslo Roth, born in Budapest, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Hatvan Ghetto, Aszod and Birkenau

Testimony of Eliahu Laslo Roth, born in Budapest, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Hatvan Ghetto, Aszod and Birkenau Childhood in Aszod; community life; education; displays of antisemitism; expulsion of Jewish children from schools; his father is drafted to forced labor; his father's injury and death, 1942; arrival of refugees from Poland. German occupation; confiscation of Jewish property; deportation to the Hatvan Ghetto; concentration in a sugar plant; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Birkenau; camp life; hospitalization; the Germans flee; breaking into the food storehouses; former inmates' deaths from overeating; escape from the camp. Return to Aszod; move to Budapest; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; aliya attempt from Italy; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; joints the Irgun; absorption.