Testimony of Eliezer Liebstein, born in Nagyivan, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer near the Dniester River, in Soviet captivity and in Siberia

Testimony of Eliezer Liebstein, born in Nagyivan, Hungary, 1919, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer near the Dniester River, in Soviet captivity and in Siberia Life in a small village; move to a city near Debrecen; attends a Jewish school and a Hungarian high school; learns in a "heder" and a yeshiva. Draft to forced labor, July 1940; labor digging a channel and building a bridge (which was exploded by the partisans) on the Dniester River; lack of sanitary conditions; taken to Soviet captivity, 1942; exiled to Siberia; labor logging trees; use of inmates to discover mines; mass mortality; release from Siberia, 1948. Return to Hungary; help from the JDC organization; aliya to Israel, 1948.