Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony of Aharon Solomon, born in Bogarovice, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Mukacevo Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen Well-to-do family who are landowners and owners of a farm, department store and a mortgage bank; investments in Eretz Israel by his mother, with the help of emissaries. Outbreak of the war; annexation to Hungary, 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor digging bunkers and in agriculture in exchange for food; deportation to the Mukacevo Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; murder of his mother and sisters; labor as a maintenance man for the SS commander; transfer to Mauthausen; rescue by a Czech clerk named Zenicek; life while using a false identity as Polish political prisoner; labor in maintenance, cleaning rooms; help to his cousins; transfer to Gusen; camp life including being an eyewitness to medical experiments, cannibalism among Soviet officers who are POWs, and cruel murders; uprising by maintenance people due to fear of their being murdered by the SS men with the approach of the US Army; liberation. Hospitalization; marriage; aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel as an Irgun member, 1946.