Testimony of Moshe David Bleier, born in Kisterenye, Hungary in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Kisterenye, in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz camps

Testimony of Moshe David Bleier, born in Kisterenye, Hungary in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Kisterenye, in the Salgotarjan Ghetto, and in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz camps Life before the war; middle-class, traditional family; antisemitism; closure of his father's store by the Hungarian Gendarmerie, and its sale by the "Cash-Box Guards" Police [?]; transfer of his father to service in the labor battalions; disappearance of his father during 1939-1940; concentration of the Jews, and their deportation to the Salgotarjan Ghetto by the Hungarian Police and SS men, 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the train; transfer to the men's group in the block for young men, Block no. 21 in the camp; life under the supervision of a German Gypsy Kapo; transfer to another camp; labor at oil refinery installations and in clearing rubble; transfer on a march to Auschwitz in mid-January 1945; liberation of Auschwitz camp by the Red Army; sorting of the inmates, and transfer with the Hungarian Jews to Katowice; receipt of [medical] treatments in Katowice; transfer to Cernauti during Pesach (April) 1945; transfer to the Slutsk POW camp; Hungarians are protected by the Soviets from the anger of the returning Jewish refugees; liberation and return to Kisterenye, which was destroyed; he joins the Habonim movement in Budapest; life at an aliya training farm; attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Giborei Gush Etzion" ship; deportation to Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; absorption and rehabilitation.