Testimony of Mordechai Hershkovitz, born in Cluj, Romania, 1913, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Budapest, Sopron, Schattendorf, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
Testimony of Mordechai Hershkovitz, born in Cluj, Romania, 1913, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Budapest, Sopron, Schattendorf, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
Testimony
Testimony of Mordechai Hershkovitz, born in Cluj, Romania, 1913, regarding his experiences in Cluj, Budapest, Sopron, Schattendorf, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
Antisemitism before the war; termination of studies.
Annexation to Hungary; drafted to forced labor repairing railroad tracks and building bunkers; life in the Budapest Ghetto; fate of his family; transfer to the Sopron Ghetto; deportation to Schattendorf; camp life including labor as a physician's assistant; death march to Mauthausen; camp life including labor removing corpses; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by the US Army, 08 May 1945.
Return to Cluj; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Kedmah", via a JDC camp in France.
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Mordechai
Mordekhai
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Hershkovitz
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1913
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Cluj, Romania
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives