Testimony of Avraham Gross, born in Hercegszanto, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Hercegszanto, the Bacsalmas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mathausen, Gusen and other places

Testimony of Avraham Gross, born in Hercegszanto, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Hercegszanto, the Bacsalmas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mathausen, Gusen and other places His childhood in Hercegszanto, including his education. Draft of his father and brother to forced labor; arrival of refugees from Poland; German Army occupation of Hercegszanto, March 1944; detention of his father in Kistarcsa; activities of the Arrow Cross Party; deportation to the Bacsalmas Ghetto under the supervision of Hungarian Gendarmes; Bacsalmas Ghetto life including the confiscation of valuables and the existence of religious life; activities of the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz; selection; camp life in the Gypsies camp; activities of Kapo men including methods of punishment; transfer to Mathausen; camp life including morbidity and hospitalization in a hospital; activities of the Jewish physicians in the hospital; transfer to Gusen; camp life including meeting acquaintances and doing forced labor in a Messerschmitt factory; death march to Linz, Austria including gunshots in the direction of the marching inmates; help to inmates by Austrian residents; transfer to Gunskirchen; camp life including the death of inmates due to starvation and typhus disease; liberation at Gunskirchen by the US Army, May 1945. Move back to Hercegszanto via Vienna and Budapest; reunion with relatives; life after the war; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; aliya to Israel via Italy, 1948; life in Israel.