Testimony of Chaim Dan Shimshovitz, born in Botiza, Romania, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Hungarian labor camps, Mauthausen and more

Testimony of Chaim Dan Shimshovitz, born in Botiza, Romania, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Hungarian labor camps, Mauthausen and more Childhood in Botiza; connection to Vizhnitz hasidism; from an ultra-Orthodox home; learns in a yeshiva in the Carpathian area; family moves to Oradea, 1929; drafted into the Romanian Army, 1936. Hungarian occupation, 1940; exemption from being drafted into Hungarian Army labor battalions; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto, 1944; deportation to a Hungarian Army labor camp in Stanislawow, Poland; transfer to a labor camp near Papa, Hungary; escape to Chust, 1944; handed over to the Hungarian Army; transfer to the Austro-Hungarian border; transfer to Austria under German supervision; deportation to the Mauthausen tent camp, 1945; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Typhus; hospitalization in the hospital in Wels, Austria; transfer to the San Cesario camp in Italy with help from Bericha and soldiers from the Jewish Brigade, 1945; unsuccessful aliya attempt on the ship, "Palmach"; detention in Cyprus; marriage in the camp; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.