Testimony of Moshe Lazar, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bekecs, the Iza Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buna Monowitz

Testimony of Moshe Lazar, born in Velatin, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Bekecs, the Iza Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buna Monowitz Life before the war; learns in a Talmud Torah and attends a Czech elementary school. Life under Hungarian rule, 1939; draft of his father to labor battalions; detention and deportation to forced labor on a farm in Bekecs, 1943; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Iza Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including labor in the Canada barracks; transfer to Monowitz; camp life including labor in a factory in Buna; approach of the front; transfer to Gleiwitz; liberation by the British Army in Neustadt. Return to Velatin; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Italy with the Bericha organization, 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.