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Testimony of Moshe Shper, born in Volove, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia, in 1921 regarding his recruitment to labour battalions and his deportation to Mauthausen

Testimony
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wealthy family; he attends the Hebrew Gymnasium in Mukacevo; transition to Hungarian rule in 1939; rise of anti-semitism ; deportation of the stateless to Poland, recruitment for labor battalions in 1942; work in a car workshop in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; escape attempts; march to Austria; digging bunkers in Szombathely; cruelty of the SS; Gunskirchen and Mathausen camps; liberation; return to Carpathian Ruthenia; return of his mother and sisters from Auschwitz; aliya to Israel in 1949.
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details.fullDetails.itemId
9810326
details.fullDetails.firstName
Moshe
details.fullDetails.lastName
Shper
details.fullDetails.dob
1921
details.fullDetails.pob
Volove, Czechoslovakia
details.fullDetails.materialType
Testimony
details.fullDetails.fileNumber
13693
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
details.fullDetails.recordGroup
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
details.fullDetails.earliestDate
13/03/2012
details.fullDetails.latestDate
13/03/2012
details.fullDetails.submitter
שפר משה
details.fullDetails.original
YES
details.fullDetails.numOfPages
42
details.fullDetails.interviewLocation
ISRAEL
details.fullDetails.testimonyForm
Video
details.fullDetails.dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection