Testimony of Benci Niman Smulevic, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Slatinske Doly, Budapest, Bor, Berlin, Bregenz and other places

Testimony of Benci Niman Smulevic, born in Bedevla, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Slatinske Doly, Budapest, Bor, Berlin, Bregenz and other places Re-annexation to Hungary, 1939; deportation of his grandmother and other family relatives to the killing pit in Kamenets Podolski; move to Slatinske Doly; deportation to Budapest under the supervision of gendarmes; life in the courtyard of the Jewish hospital; help from the Jewish community; draft order, 1943; transfer to Bor, Yugoslavia; transfer to Berlin; camp life including division of the deportees into groups of 25 people; transfer to Bregenz; transfer back to Berlin; camp life including futile labor; liquidation of the camp; transfer of the inmates to the outside of the camp under the escort of Hungarians and Germans, late 1944; liberation by Tito's partisans; joins the partisans. Illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Yugoslavia on the "Knesset Israel" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.