Testimony of Yisrael Zoldan Ben Meir Lax, born in 1920 in Selce (Siltse), Podkarpatska Rus, Czechoslovakia, about service in the Hungarian Armlabor brigades, 1939–1943, and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944

Testimony about an Orthodox family: transition to Hungarian rule in 1938; service in the labor brigades in October 1939–December 1943; infrastructure work in Ukrainian territory; non Jews' testimonies about murder of Jews in Kolomyja; murder of witness's family in Kamieniece Podolski; back to Siltse in December 1943; German occupation ensues in March 1944; building fences in the Chust ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in June 1944; clearing rubble in the Warsaw ghetto; forced to march to Kraków, with mass mortality; transfer to Dachau; construction of the Kaufering camp; epidemic typhus; burying the dead in Kaufering; liberation; back to Hungary; immigration to Eretz Israel aboard a Haganah ship; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel