Testimony of Zvi Vartenberg Vardi, born in Galati, Romania, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Budapest, Csepel and in the Glass House in Budapest

Testimony of Zvi Vartenberg Vardi, born in Galati, Romania, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Budapest, Csepel and in the Glass House in Budapest From an established traditional Zionist family; life under Hungarian rule; drafted to labor battalions, 1943; labor in an aircraft factory on the outskirts of Budapest; destruction of the factory in an air-raid; transfer to a weapons factory in Csepel; labor repairing the electric grid after air-raids; transfer to the port in Budapest, late 1944; labor loading sacks; escape to the Glass House; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; volunteers for a Romanian regiment; combat at the front; combat in Bucharest as part of a Romanian division. Desertion from the army; escape from Romania; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.