Testimony of Zelman Buchbinder, born in Ternovo, Czechoslovakia, in 1926 regarding the deportation to Auschwitz, Plaszow and regarding the labor camp Mauthausen

Childhood in Ternovo; community life in Ternovo; good relations between Jews and non-Jews in Ternovo; invasion of the Hungarians in 1939; recruiting the elder brothers to Hungarian labor camps; anti-Jewish legislation;riots; harming the rabbi of the community; German occupation; deportation of the family to Mateszalka ghetto, Hungary in March 1944; conditions in the ghetto; diseases; yellow badge; deportation of the family to Auschwitz Birkenau; "aktion" by Mengele; crematorium; starvation; death of family members; transfer to Plaszow camp,Poland about 2 weeks later; beating of inmates; murder of inmates by the camp commander Amon Goth; forced labor; transfer to Mathausen camp in December 1944; death of inmates during forced labor; worsening of the conditions; diseases; transfer to Melk; transfer to Ebnsee; hard physical and emotional condition; liberation by the Americans; illegal immigration to Israel on the 'Exodus"; transfer back to Germany; DPcamps; aliya back to Israel