Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop

Testimony of Levi Moshkovitz, born in Orsowa, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in the Brustury forest, Kosice, Hodmezovasarhely, Novi Sad and Cop Life before the war. Annexation to Hungary, March 1939; nationalization of property and ban on ritual slaughter; learns in a yeshiva in Kosino; deportation of Jews to Galicia as foreign citizens and their murder; drafted into labor battalions; labor in the Brustury forest; camp life including religious life; transfer to Kosice; transfer to Hodmezovasarhely by freight train; Yom Kippur prayers on the train; forced labor digging bunkers; Sukkot prayers in a Neolog synagogue; transfer to Novi Sad; hunger and eating horseflesh; deportation of his family to Auschwitz and their murders; release in Cop, October 1944; march towards Orsowa with a friend. Return home and reunion with his sister and brother; move to Bucharest in a refugee train; help from the JDC; move to Austria; aliya to Israel via Naples, 1949.