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

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.