Testimony of Jozef Schwartz, born in Bekecs, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Mohacs Mesto, Lazarea, Kosice and other places

Testimony of Jozef Schwartz, born in Bekecs, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Mohacs Mesto, Lazarea, Kosice and other places From an Orthodox family; Beitar and Hapoel Hamizrachi activities; learns in a yeshiva in Tokaj; drafted into a Hungarian Army labor battalion, October 1942; displays of antisemitism; transfer to the Yugoslavian border; transfer to Mohacs Mesto; identification of the Jewish soldiers with a yellow stripe, December 1942; sapper's course and course in building bridges; labor building bridges over the Danube river; transfer to Lazarea; forced labor; concentration at the airfield in Kosice, 06 November 1966; 40 kilometer a day march in the direction of the Austrian border over two months; return to Szombathely; labor in a military camp; labor providing supplies to the Hungarian Army; digging anti-tank trenches; dysentery and hospitalization; transfer to Linz on foot; meeting a convoy from Mauthausen; incidents of cannibalism, liberation in Gunskirchen. Rehabilitation in Wels; return home.