Testimony of Meir Haim Reizmovich Shlomovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Auschwitz, Warszawa and Dachau camps, and in other places

Testimony of Meir Haim Reizmovich Shlomovitz, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Chust Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Auschwitz, Warszawa and Dachau camps, and in other places Life in Chust during the annexation to Hungary, 1939; life under Hungarian rule; German occupation, 1944; deportation to forced labor under the supervision of Hungarians; Chust Ghetto life in an open ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz camp, 1944; transfer to Warszawa camp with two of his brothers, 1944; camp life including labor clearing rubble from the ghetto; transfer to Dachau camp; transfer to Mildorf; camp life including labor building the camp; death of his brother from typhus disease, 1945; approach of the US Army; transfer on a death march in the direction of the Swiss border, 1945; US Army air-raids; liberation by the US Army, 1945. Typhus disease and rehabilitation in a hospital in Muehldorf, 1945; return to Chust, 1945; life in Chust including joining the "Herzliya kibbutz"; move to Feldafing DP camp via Austria with help from the Bericha organization, 1946; DP camp life; move to Paris, 1946; refugee camp life for three months; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Biriah" ship, 1946.