Testimony of Joseph Zoltan Tandlich, born in Spisske Tomasovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in detention in Kezmarok, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen

Testimony of Joseph Zoltan Tandlich, born in Spisske Tomasovce, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in detention in Kezmarok, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen Life before the war; Jewish community; his parents' deaths; illness and hospitalization. Yellow badge; deportation of the Jews to camps; escape of Jews to Hungary; outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; detention in Kezmarok; life under arrest; rescue of Jews from deportation by a German sergeant; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Ravensbrueck; camp life including finding valuables in shoes; lice and disease; eating dead cats; transfer to Sachsenhausen; camp life including forging money; receives packages from the Red Cross; death march; food from villagers; liberation in Herzfeld. Move to Berlin; move to Prague; studies to be a dental technician; aliya to Israel via Italy, 1949; enlists in the IDF; studies dentistry; marriage, 1967.