Testimony of Shmuel Erwin Tronstein Turani, born in Hidasnemeti, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Abaujszanto, Kosice, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and other places

Testimony of Shmuel Erwin Tronstein Turani, born in Hidasnemeti, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Abaujszanto, Kosice, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and other places Life before the war; religious-Zionist family; life in Abaujszanto in his grandparents' home; learns in a state school and a yeshiva; activities in the Bnei Akiva movement. German occupation, March 1944; work in a matzah factory; deportation to a brick factory in Kosice; life in Kosice including meeting with his parents and sister; labor digging trenches for sewers; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; camp life including escape to friends during a selection; volunteers for labor as an electrician; transfer to Buna; camp life including labor in gardening; obtains food; air-raids on the camp; labor constructing a building that was damaged; transfer by train and on a death march to Buchenwald, January 1945; camp life; evacuation of the camp; finds a hiding place above a wooden ceiling; liberation by the US Army, 11 April 1945. Convalescence from typhus; return to the family's home; life in his family's home including reunion with his younger sister; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including joining the Dror-Habonim movement; move to Germany, late 1945; aliya training; move to France, late 1946; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, summer 1947.