Testimony of Aharon Bela Rothman, born in Tarpa, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Hungarian Army in Koszeg, Uzok, Sobrance, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony of Aharon Bela Rothman, born in Tarpa, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Hungarian Army in Koszeg, Uzok, Sobrance, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen From a traditional family; his father is a merchant; displays of antisemitism; move to Debrecen. Draft into the Hungarian Army, 1943; transfer to Koszeg; yellow badge; labor sawing trees; transfer to Uzok; life in Uzok including labor building bunkers; transfer on foot to Sobrance; life in Sobrance including labor digging trenches against the advancing Red Army, 1944; transfer on a freight train to Austria; halt of the train in Pose on Yom Kippur; labor preparing anti-tank barriers; death march to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen; disappearance of the German guards, May 1945; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization in an American hospital; return to Tarpa; help from the JDC; aliya training in Budapest; marriage; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Knesset Israel"; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.