Testimony of Asher Roth, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Sevlus, Budapest, Transylvania and in hiding

Testimony of Asher Roth, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Sevlus, Budapest, Transylvania and in hiding His childhood in an Orthodox, religious family. Life under Hungarian occupation including the removal of Jews from schools, 1939; ban on kosher ritual slaughter, and acts of abuse by Hungarian gendarmes; beating to death of an Admor [rabbi]; move to Budapest with his brother, 1942; German Army occupation of Budapest; deportation to forced labor in the clearing of rubble; loss of contact with his family; labor for the Germans digging trenches against air-raids; transfer to labor dismantling mines in Transylvania; military revolt, October 1944; escape from a labor battalion in Budapest; capture by fascists; transfer on foot to the Danube River; escape; in hiding in a protected house in Budapest; liberation, 1945. Joins Hanoar Hatzioni; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.