Testimony of Aleksander Benedak, born in Caraseu, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lieberose and Mauthausen

Testimony of Aleksander Benedak, born in Caraseu, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Satu Mare Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lieberose and Mauthausen Life before the war; religious family. Annexation to Hungary; draft of his brother to labor battalions; restrictions on movement; confiscation of property; draft of his father to forced labor; release of his father; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; deportation to the Satu Mare Ghetto, May 1944; ghetto life; activities of the Judenrat and the Jewish Police; work as a policeman in the Jewish Police; deportation to Birkenau; camp life; selection; transfer with his father to Lieberose; camp life; forced labor on the roads; the block elder is a homosexual; death of his father; receives food from a SS soldier; transfer in a death march to Mauthausen, January 1945; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Move to Vienna; move to Budapest; move to Caraseu; reunion with his brother; hospitalization for convalescence; life in Satu Mare; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1963.