Testimony of Yeshayahu Shpitzer, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Hajdunanas, the Debrecen Ghetto, Sombathely camp, Szolok and other places

Testimony of Yeshayahu Shpitzer, born in Hajdunanas, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Hajdunanas, the Debrecen Ghetto, Sombathely camp, Szolok and other places Life before the war; family is Sanz hassidim. Death of his father, 1942; life in Debrecen and vocational studies; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto; ghetto life; escape; life in the local prison; receives help from the local Jewish community; trial; life in Szolok camp with political inmates; transfer to labor loading coal on trains; transfer to another camp; camp life; construction of a bunker against air-raids; observes kashrut; punishment for not filling the daily labor quota; approach of the Red Army; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; air-raids by Allied forces; escape to a labor battalion; transfer to the Austrian border; life in Sombathely camp; life in a stable; labor digging anti-tank trenches; approach of the Red Army; liberation. Move via train to Budapest, April 1945; Hashomer Hatzair aliya training; aliya attempt on the ship "Knesset Israel", December 1945; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.