Testimony of Yitzhak Yulius Cohen, born in Aranos Na Zitnom Ostrove, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Komarno and on the Austro-Hungarian border and in Mauthausen

Testimony of Yitzhak Yulius Cohen, born in Aranos Na Zitnom Ostrove, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Komarno and on the Austro-Hungarian border and in Mauthausen Life before the war; education; move to Komarno; life in Komarno including Maccabi Hatzair and Beitar activities. Ban on youth movement activities; deportation to a labor battalion; life in the labor battalion including training and forced labor; flooding of the camp and damage to property; meets Jews on a march from Budapest to Austria; explosion in a railroad station and labor evacuating the injured; transfer to the Austro-Hungarian border on a march; sleeping in a cowshed; mass burial of the dead at the Austro-Hungarian border; life at the Austro-Hungarian border including labor building fortifications; transfer to Mauthausen, 1945; camp life; liberation, May 1945. Return to the family home; life in Komarno including reunion with relatives and friends; marriage, 1947; move to Italy; aliya to Israel, 1949.