Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Layzer Fuks, born in Sandrovo, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sandrovo, in hiding, in the Sekernice Ghetto, the Chust Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places His childhood with his family in a village. Life under Hungarian rule, 1939; new anti-Jewish decrees on all the Jews; increase in antisemitism; German Army occupation of Sandrovo before Pesach (April), 1944; in hiding while hidden by neighbors during the deportation to the Sekernice Ghetto, in hiding in a forest; in hiding while hidden by his neighbors; transfer to the Sekernice Ghetto; escape to a forest during the deportation of residents to the ghetto; turns himself in to the forest guard; deportation to the Chust Ghetto; liquidation of the Chust Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life in Auschwitz for a short period of time; transfer to a camp in Warsaw; camp life including forced labor, for nine weeks; transfer on foot to Kutno; transfer by train to Dachau; transfer to Kaufering; camp life in Kaufering; transfer to Landsberg; camp life in Landsberg; labor on a farm in the area; in hiding in Revi with help from Dr. Hahn; typhus disease; air-raids; deportation by train; escape from the train during an air-raid; liberation, 28 April 1945. Move back to Chust; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1973; life in Israel.