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Testimony of Josef Benedek, born in Olbo, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Carpathian Ruthenia, and in Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places

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Testimony of Josef Benedek, born in Olbo, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Carpathian Ruthenia, and in Mauthausen, Gunskirchen and other places Religious family; move to Budapest, 1928. Publication of anti-Jewish restrictions and orders, 1939; expulsion from the framework of higher education; draft to labor battalions, 1943; forced labor in Carpathian Ruthenia; return to Hungary, spring 1944; labor digging and building bunkers; escape home; return; march in the direction of Austria; Allied air-raids; transfer to labor in the context of the Todt organization; labor digging and in the burial of Jews; escape to a forest; killing of a German officer; deportation to Mauthausen; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by the US Army, 05 May 1945. Return home; move to Budapest; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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7256630
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Josef
Joseph
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Benedek
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11/07/1922
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Olbo, Hungary
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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17/06/08
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17/06/08
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Benedek Josef
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection