Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area

Testimony of Menachem Cohen Shtol, born in Sighet, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Sighet Ghetto, Auschwitz and camps in the Silesia area Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends school and a "heder". Annexation to Hungary, 1940; restrictions on the Jews; Jews prepare for aliya to Eretz Israel, 1942; deportation of Jews without Hungarian or Ukranian citizenship to Ukraine; receives knowledge on the murder of Jews due to lack of food; termination of his education, 1942; Jewish police activities; soup kitchen; death of his mother from surgery in Budapest, 1943; deportation of the Jews to the Sighet Ghetto, 1944; ghetto life; the ghetto is guarded by the Jewish police and the Hungarians; deportation of Jews and robbery of their property; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; selection; transfer to various camps in Silesia; transfer to forced labor outside the camps; labor pathing roads; labor in a mountain quarry; digging trenches; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Hungary; aliya with Machal to Israel, 1948.