Testimony of Aba Shvartz, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Simapuszta Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rehnsdorf camp, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Aba Shvartz, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Simapuszta Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rehnsdorf camp, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war; religious family; attends a "heder" and a Jewish school; studies in a small Yeshiva. Deportation of the father to a labor battalion; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Simapuszta Ghetto; deportation with the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; remains with his father and older brother without action; selection; escape with his brother to his father's group; transfer with his father to Buchenwald; camp life including moving boulders from place to place; transfer to Gleina camp; transfer to Rehnsdorf; camp life including finding a glasses case with a gold ring inside; exchange of the ring for a daily ration of potatoes; approach of the Red Army; deportation by train and air-raids on the railway engine; transfer in a death march to Theresiestadt, spring 1945; life in Theresiestadt; liberation. Return to the family home, summer 1945; move to aliya training of the Mizrachi movement in Hungary; life in Germany on a kibbutz; aliya to Eretz Israel with resident passports of Eretz Israel, 1947; establishment of Moshav Nir Etzion; life on the moshav.