Testimony of Josef Berger, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Melk camps, and in other places

Testimony of Josef Berger, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, in Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Melk camps, and in other places Life before the war. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1943; burial of their property; deportation to the Satu Mare Ghetto; Satu Mare Ghetto life including forced labor; deportation in cattle cars to Auschwitz, 1944; camp life; separation between men and women; selection; transfer to Mauthausen; camp life; transfer to Melk, 1944; camp life; labor digging tunnels; air-raids on the camp by the Allied forces; transfer by train to Ebensee; camp life; labor preparing sewers; air-raids on the camp; the German solders flee; arrival of US Army tanks. Return to Satu Mare; return of four sisters from Theresienstadt camp; opening of his family's shop; move to Budapest; life in Budapest; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; activities by the Bericha organization; illegally crosses the border to Austria; life in a military camp near Salzburg; receives help from the JDC organization; joins a group of the Hashomer Hatzair movement; illegally crosses the border to Italy; Avigliana camp life; aliya to Israel, 15 May 1948.