Testimony of Zeev Vladislav Honig, born in Sombor, Yugoslavia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Sombor, Baya, Auschwitz, Wuestegirsdorf camp, Gross Rosen and other places

Testimony of Zeev Vladislav Honig, born in Sombor, Yugoslavia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Sombor, Baya, Auschwitz, Wuestegirsdorf camp, Gross Rosen and other places Life in Sombor. Annexation to Hungary, April 1941; hanging of Jews in the square; deportation of mature men to labor battalions in Ukraine; deportation of youth to labor cleaning streets; odd jobs and difficulties earning a livelihood; hears rumors about the events in Poland; German occupation, March 1944; arrest of his grandfather; concentration of the Jews in the Backa Topola area; separation between men and women; deportation on a train with men only to Baya; life in Baya including selection; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; receives shoes and clothes; transfer to Gross Rosen; transfer to Wuestegirsdorf; camp life; labor building infrastructures for the TODT organization until January 1945; hanging of inmates due to their escape attempt; transfer in a death march; shooting of the unsuccessful escape inmates; transfer to Flossenbuerg; camp life as non-Jewish inmates; transfer in a march under the supervision of political inmates; liberation by the US Army near Stamsried. Life in Yugoslavia; interrogation under the suspicion of collaboration with the Germans; gives up his citizenship; aliya to Israel, 1948.