Testimony of Leib Steiner, born in Kaposvar, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaposvar and in a labor battalion in the Veszprem area and in Sopron

Testimony of Leib Steiner, born in Kaposvar, Hungary, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaposvar and in a labor battalion in the Veszprem area and in Sopron Life in Kaposvar before the war; displays of antisemitism; escape of refugees from Austria to Kaposvar, 1938; escape of refugees from Slovakia to Kaposvar, 1941; monetary help to refugees; unsuccessful attempts to be accepted to university, due to anti-Jewish legislation. Transfer of his father to forced labor, 1942; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; closure of Jews' stores; witness' transfer to forced labor; labor building railroad tracks and bridges in the Veszprem area; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; attempts to locate his parents; displays of antisemitism by Hungarians; transfer to Sopron, January 1945; life in Sopron with a labor battalion, including labor laying mines; typhus disease; liberation by the Red Army, 01 April 1945. Return to his family's home in Kaposvar; life in Kaposvar; aliya to Israel, 1949.