Testimony of David Berger, born in Hirsava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Hirsava and in labor battalions in Baia Mare

Testimony of David Berger, born in Hirsava, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Hirsava and in labor battalions in Baia Mare Annexation to Hungary, 1940; increasing displays of antisemitism; drafting of his father into the [Hungarian] Army; German occupation, 1944; concentration of the community in preparation for deportation; deportation [of witness] to labor battalions in Baia Mare, Transylvania; hard labor in a quarry; approach of the Red Army and move westward; disease including typhus; murder of the sick; transfer by forced march to Austria; liberation in Linz, Austria. Hospitalization; return to Hirsava; aliya to Israel, 1948.