Testimony of Zoltan Bezalel Perlrot Shultz, born in Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Banska Bystrica, Zilina, Kezmarok, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and Schwerin

Testimony of Zoltan Bezalel Perlrot Shultz, born in Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in Banska Bystrica, Zilina, Kezmarok, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and Schwerin From a traditional well-to-do family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews including termination of studies; forced registration of property and handing over of valuables to a local aristocrat, 1941; handing over the shop and family's apartment to a non-Jewish family, 1941; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Hungary; deportation with his parents to Zilina, June 1942; move to Kezmarok with help from a non-Jewish acquaintance; life with relatives as the acquaintance's illegitimate son; Slovak National Uprising and detention with his uncle, August 1944; deportation to Plaszow; camp life including labor repairing watches; transfer with his uncle to Sachsenhausen, October 1944; camp life including labor as an apprentice clock repairer; liquidation of the camp; transfer on foot to Schwerin, 20 April 1945; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalisation; move to Kezmarok; life in Kezmarok including studies; aliya to Israel, 1949.