Testimony of Georgi Farkash, born in Salonta, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Salonta, Budapest, Hotoan, Bistrita and other places

Testimony of Georgi Farkash, born in Salonta, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Salonta, Budapest, Hotoan, Bistrita and other places Life in Salonta before the war; secular family; witness attends a Jewish high school; membership in the Dror-Habonim movement. Escape to Budapest, 1942; life in Budapest including studies and work; anti-Jewish restrictions; German occupation; camp life in Hotoan including distribution into groups; camp life in Bistrita including wearing a yellow badge; transfer to Budapest; life in Ujpest including labor repairing a bridge; unsuccessful escape attempt and then detention; transfer to Koszeg; camp life near a brick factory; labor digging anti-tank trenches; selection by SS soldiers; murder of weak inmates in a barracks with the help of a gas balloon; transfer to Burgenland; life in Burgenland including labor in fields; death march to Mauthausen; life in a hospital in Celle; transfer to Bergen-Belsen. Life in Bergen-Belsen in an aliya training "kibbutz"; return to Salonta with help from the JDC organization; move to Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1961.