us-005578-irn501790
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 686
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn501790
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Contains a typewritten memoir, 12 pages, describing his life in Beregovo, Czechoslovakia (a.k.a.Beregszasz, Hungary), before and during the German occupation; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp; his transfer to Babitz concentration camp where he worked as an agricultural slave laborer; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp where he worked digging ditches and moving stones; selections by Josef Mengele; a death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp in January 1945; his transfer to Ebensee concentration camp where he worked in tunnels being dug into the mountains; beatings by SS guards; his postwar life in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany; his and his parents' emigration to the United States in 1947.
title: My experiences and survival in Nazi death camps