Testimony of George Geiger, born in Lunca de Jos, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Hangony, Kecsekmet, Szolnok, Obuda and Budapest

Testimony of George Geiger, born in Lunca de Jos, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Hangony, Kecsekmet, Szolnok, Obuda and Budapest Only son; orphaned; life with his grandmother in Targu Mures; attends elementary school; move to his father's family in Hatvan; learns goldsmith craft. German occupation, 1944; drafted to forced labor; training camp in Hangony; anti-Jewish legislation; transfer to a labor camp in an airfield in Kecsekmet; yellow badge; transfer to a labor group at a train junction in Szolnok, Septermber 1944; Rosh Hashana prayers in the camp; approach of the Soviet front; transfer to Germany; escape; joins a labor batallion of Jews in the Hungarian Army; labor in a warehouse of plundered loot in Obuda; labor loading the loot onto ships; rise of Szalasi to power, October 1944; detention by the Arrow Cross; escape and return to Budapest; return to labor in the Hungarian Army; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Oradea; move to Targu Mures; reunion with relatives who returned from Auschwitz; marriage, 1951; aliya to Israel, 1961.