Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places

Testimony of Chaim Moshkovitz, born in Borsa, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Borsa, the Viseu Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rehmsdorf and other places Hungarian Army occupation [of Borsa]; life under Hungarian occupation, 1940; lack of possibility to actualize the use of certificates to Eretz Israel; death of his father, 1940; German Army occupation [of Borsa]; deportation to the Viseu Ghetto, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Buchenwald with his brother, 1944; transfer to Rehmsdorf camp; camp life including labor in a factory for the production of synthetic fuel [BRABAG - Braunkohle-Benzin AG, established by the I. G. Farben company, one of the companies that established the factory], 1944; transfer back to Buchenwald; US Army air-raids on the camp, 1945; transfer of the inmates to an unknown place in open railroad cars; transfer back to the camp; death of his brother, 1945; death march to Litomerice; death march to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Typhus illness; move back to Borsa; locates his two sisters; move to Bucharest, 1946; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel from Yugoslavia on the "Knesset Israel" ship, and detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.