Testimony of Mordechai Iungreiss, born in Lorinci, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kiskoros, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
Testimony of Mordechai Iungreiss, born in Lorinci, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kiskoros, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
Testimony
Testimony of Mordechai Iungreiss, born in Lorinci, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in Kiskoros, the Salgotarjan Ghetto, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen
Life before the war; Orthodox family; attends a Hungarian school; learns in a "heder" and yeshiva; move to Kiskoros; life in Kiskoros.
Outbreak of the war; restrictions on the Jews; deportation of his father to forced labor; return of his father; deportation to the Salgotarjan Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer with his father to forced labor; labor in construction of an airfield and digging anti-tank trenches; approach of the Red Army; transfer in a death march to Mauthausen; life in a tent camp; transfer to Gunskirchen camp; liberation.
Return to Hungary; life in Hungary; repossession of some of the family's property; move to Budapest; life in Budapest including Beitar aliya training; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship "Rafiah", 1946; knowledge of the murder of his mother, sister and two brothers in Auschwitz.
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item Id
7499620
First Name
Mordechai
Mordekhai
Last Name
Iungreis
Date of Birth
13/06/1926
Place of Birth
Lorinci, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives