Memoirs, articles, lists and personal documentation regarding VI Pracovny Prapor (Sixth Labor Battalion), 1939-1980
- Map marking the location of the camps of the labor battalions;
- List of the labor battalions in which Jews served;
- Article written by Ladislav Lipscher titled, "Der Sechste Juedische Militaerischer Arbeitsbataillon im Slowakischen Staat" ("The Sixth Jewish Labor Battalion in the Slovak State"), referring to an Army labor battalion;
- Invitation to a reunion with members of the battalion in Tel Aviv, 1960;
- Memoirs regarding camp life, condition of the food and living quarters,...
File Number : 30
Type of Material : Research Article, List of Names, Article, Personal Documents, Memoirs
Lists of people in the VI Pracovny Prapor (Sixth Labor Battalion)
- Labor of the battalion in changing the course of the Malina River in Lab, digging a canal in Svaty Jur and building a dam over the Morava River in Zohor;
- Included in the lists are family name, first name and date of birth;
- Announcement of the Slovak Defense Department regarding the obligation of Jews to serve in the labor camps, 10 January 1941;
- Announcement of the Interior Department that the deportation of Jews serving in labor camps will occur only in the last transport, 01 April 1942;
- Rescue of 900 Jews due to the...
File Number : 29
Type of Material : List of Names, Personal Documents, Announcement, Placards, List of Persecuted Persons
Memoirs of Hanoch Heu regarding his experiences in the VI Pracovny Prapor (Sixth Labor Battalion)
Drafted into the Sixth Labor Battalion, 03 March 1941; stationed in the Cemerne military camp; transfer to Humenne after a short time; transfer to the Svaty Peter airfield [for] labor in building an access road to the airfield; Transfer to Lab, summer 1942, in order to work in digging a drainage ditch; release [from the battalion?], June 1943; transfer to Kostolna, autumn 1943; transfer to Dubnica for construction works, spring 1944; transfer by his brother, Arie, to Bratislava; receives forged Aryan documents...
Memoirs of Ladislav Teichner regarding life in Cemerne camp of the VI Pracovny Prapor (Sixth Labor Battalion), 01 March 1941-June 1943
Life in Cemerne camp including living conditions, food, hygiene and places of work; treatment of the Jews by the commanders; transfer of the group to the Novaky civilian camp, June 1943; escape of a number of people from the group and their joining the partisans; remaining of the rest of the group in the camp until the end of the war.
Memoirs of Alfred Rusnak Rosenbaum who served in the Svaty Jur camp of the VI Pracovny Prapor (Sixth Labor Battalion), 01 October 1941-30 June 1943
Decline in the status of the Jewish Slovak soldier: From an inseparable part of the Slovak Army to the status of a soldier lacking any rights; the training identical to that of the Slovak soldiers except for arms training; food provisions and living conditions identical to that of the Slovaks; switching from Army uniforms for prisoner clothing following Operation Barbarossa; changing the living conditions including housing in dark barracks; sleeping in wet beds...
Memoirs of Meir Porges, a Hashomer Hatzair activist, drafted into the VI Pracovny Prapor (Sixth Labor Battalion) in Podolinec, 12 December 1940
Obtaining forged Aryan certificates at the beginning of the transports; disbanding of the Sixth Labor Battalion, 1943; transfer to a civil camp, August 1944; stay in the Banska Bystrica camp; outbreak of the Slovak Uprising; transfer to forced labor in Banska Stiavnica; drafted into the Czech Liberation Army; liberated, May 1945.