Testimony of Yehuda Tehel, born in Mezolak, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Urkut and on a death march

Testimony of Yehuda Tehel, born in Mezolak, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in a labor battalion in Urkut and on a death march Childhood on a small farm in the only Jewish family in the village; attends an elementary school run by the Szekesfehervar Jews and a government high school until 1941. Drafted into labor battalions; life in Urkut, June 1944-May 1945; labor in manganese mines; death march; escape from the death march to the city of Szekesfehervar, May 1945; receives information regarding the fate of his family. Displays of antisemitism after the war; joins Gordonia; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Knesset Israel", 1946; detention in Cyprus, 1946-1947; aliya to Kibbutz Mishmarot, 1947.