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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, ...
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item Id
8837470
First Name
Yisrael
Zoldan
Last Name
Ben Meir
Laks
Date of Birth
27/07/1920
Place of Birth
Selce, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13678
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
25/03/10
Date of Creation - latest
25/03/10
Name of Submitter
Ben Meir Lax Yisrael
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
94
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video