Testimony of Karol Schulcz, born in Neded, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in a work battalion near Voiniceni, near the border with Germany, in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen

Testimony of Karol Schulcz, born in Neded, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in a work battalion near Voiniceni, near the border with Germany, in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen From a well-to-do traditional Zionist family; attends a Jewish school and a local high school; registration for aliya to Eretz Israel with Agudat Israel; failure of the aliya and return home. Anti-Jewish laws; closing of the family coffee house; draft notice to report to a Hungarian Army labor battalion, 1942; his father's death, 1942; life in labor battalion 6/1; building a Hungarian Army training camp; transfer to the border with Germany; digging anti-tank trenches; German occupation, March 1944; building an airfield near Voiniceni on the border with Germany; approach of the front; transfer on foot to a city on the German border; execution of 13 sick men; burial of the dead on the side of the road; arrival at Mauthausen; camp life including becoming a Muselmann and weighing 39 kilograms; transfer to Gunskirchen; activities of the Ukrainian guards; eating grass and snails out of hunger; typhus; liberation by the US Army. Move to Bratislava; aliya to Israel, 1949.