Testimony of Alexander Galambos, born in Liptovsky Svaty Jan, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Liptovsky Svaty Jan, Nove Zamky, Esztergom, the Komarno Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places

Testimony of Alexander Galambos, born in Liptovsky Svaty Jan, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Liptovsky Svaty Jan, Nove Zamky, Esztergom, the Komarno Ghetto, Auschwitz and other places His childhood in Liptovsky Svaty Jan and in Nove Zamky, including activities in the Mizrachi movement. Hungarian Army occupation of the area, 1938; attitude of the local population; closure of the Jewish school in Nove Zamky including the expulsion of Jews from the high school; arrival of refugees from Poland; life under Hungarian occupation including the confiscation of property, forced labor and fear of the Hungarian Gendarmerie men; move to Esztergom, 1943; German Army occupation [of Esztergom], March 1944; life in Esztergom including anti-Jewish legislation; deportation to the Komarno Ghetto; Komarno Ghetto life including the cutting off of contact with his home, acts of robbery and confiscation of property; deportation to Auschwitz, May 1944; camp life including acts of abuse; transfer to Allach; camp life including lice, cold and labor repairing railroad tracks in Munich; evacuation of the camp; transfer on a train without any destination, including hunger for three days; liberation by the US Army in the Munich area. Life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.