Testimony of Shlomo Braunstein, born in Izky, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and during his wanderings

Testimony of Shlomo Braunstein, born in Izky, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion and during his wanderings Orphaned of his mother; orphaned of his father when he was 7 years old; life with his siblings; move to Volovec; life with one of his siblings including work as a tailor's apprentice. Outbreak of the war; drafted into a Hungarian Army labor battalion; building fortifications along the front and laying railroad tracks; harsh discipline including corporal punishment; obtains food through barter with the Ukrainians and Romanians; several escapes from the camp; escape to forests, 1944; meets Jewish partisans; housing in Ukrainian homes in the winter; labor as a translator; labor in a hospital. Move to Sighet; help from the JDC; search for relatives; move to Paris; move to Marseilles; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.