Testimony of Shmuel Dov Ber Tesler, born in Barsana, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Barsana, the Berbesti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jawischowitz, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Shmuel Dov Ber Tesler, born in Barsana, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in Barsana, the Berbesti Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jawischowitz, Buchenwald and other places His childhood in an Orthodox religious family; activities in Bnei Akiva; meets refugees from Czechoslovakia and Poland; help to the refugees. Hungarian Army occupation of Barsana, 1938; life under Hungarian occupation including the imposition of restrictions and decrees; receives knowledge regarding the fate of the Jews; his brother's escape to the Soviet Union; work as a tailor's apprentice; deportation to the Berbesti Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; labor in a coal mine in Jawischowitz; camp life including the food and religious life; injury, and hospitalization in a hospital; approach of the Red Army; [forced] march of inmates; acts of abuse by a Jewish Kapo; transfer to Buchenwald with his father and brother; selection; murder of his father and his younger brother; forced labor in a quarry; transfer to Dachau; transfer to Allach; liberation by the US Army. Activities in Hamizrachi; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life in Israel.