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On about the 20th March, 1944, they arrested me at Felsőgöd. The gendarme Eszes fetched me at my lodgings. The man had been transferred after the German occupation from Gödöllő to Felsőgöd, expressly to look after political things. Of course, I am at a loss up to this day why I was ### taken away.At first one took me to the country-police place of Felsőgöd where they gave me a thrashing, then I was led to the vagrants' barracks in Budapest. Here the Gestapo men and those of the police beat me up anew; they did so on the ground that I was a Jew, nothing else was possible to put to my charge. Ensign Vigh, section-leader, a man of extraordinary cruelty, beat us with a brrom-handle.Then we went to the concentration camp at Garany, some days later to Sátoraljaujhely, and hence we left to Auschwitz.This dreadful journay lasted 11 days. No water was given, and the Hungarian gendarmes on trial, who had come from the countrypolice school at Ungv#r behaved toward us ### fiercely, like wild beasts.In Birkenau one chased us from the train, our parcels were taken away, we retained our clothes we had on the body, but not for long, for in a big barrack, where all our hair were removed, they took all of our civilian clothes, and replaced them by convicts' garments. Still in our underwear we were driven to the bath, where we spent half the night. At night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, we had to leave the building for they wanted to count us. At the order of the SS we had to run around and around the huge yard. Meanwhile we watched gigantic fires flame, listened to the screams and yells of women. I belive it possible that they were being burnt on open fires.We were lodged in an enormous barrack, where we lay on bare plank-beds. One building held about 1500 men, 3-4 of us on one bed. In the morning we got our clothes, 600 of us were put into motor-trucks, and taken to Auschwitz.Here one placed us in a one-storey barrack, and existence was abit better. Treatment was not so bad, and food eatable. Then it was the selections according to trades set in.At the beginning of June about 500 of us were transferred to Laurahütte, to do work in a big gun gactory which turne# out antiaircraft guns of the latest type. Teh job was rather strenuous and going hand in hand with much responsibility, but treatment was tolerable here too. Our #ehrmacht guards secure# for us lard and bread. And we also could obtain food. A Viennese foreman, #irst by name, often let me have his own forenoon-portion of food.In February, the Russians drawing near, the camp had to be emptied. #e were put into a train, and 1# days later we reached Mauthausen. One disinfected us, toook away our clothes, and gave ### us new civilian garments in return.The same night we were put on the way to Gusen. #e walked in snow reaching here to our knuckles, there to our knees. After four days of quarantine at Gusen we were selected again, to be transported to Hannover. More we did work in the ### arms factory. I had been #osted to the assembly, but stayed there only one week; I had fallen ill, and was so enfeebled that # remained in the ### to the end. #hen the British progressed we had to fly; our guards-officer declared that those f#t for walk should leave, the others were to stay on. The latter counted about 150, and we already believed to have become free. As we had not been given one single bit of food we asked those of our comrades who could move about to get ### to eat. They went to the kitchen and the ###, but some ### come back, and killed with their machine-### to be caught by them in the yard, the kitchen ### . About 40 of us lost ### life this way, and we had to bury them in a huge pit in the yard.In the morning, quite unexpectedly, two big motor-tracks arrived, and we were taken to Bergen-Belsen. This was a ### annihilation camp, destined only for enfeebled and unfit captives. Life there was horribly far beyond description. Everybody suffered from diarrhoea, and the men were losing blood already. Mortality run to 7-800 a day. #e were lying on the bare ground. The worst of it all was yet the incredible terrorism exerced over us by our Gipsy-overseers. The# beat us without the least ### reason with pia###, and sold our food to the Special Camp.Alas, here # became a cripple: one Gipsy hit me in the middle of my back with a be#-plank, and I was laid up ### broken ### six weeks in a ###-bandage. Then I shifted over to the ### Camp, realising that staying on would mena for me, too, the #ate of the others.With the Special Camp I was taken to Theresienstadt, which we reached on 21st April. I got into a hospital, and receive# medical treatment. As I had developed an internal tumour, I underwent an operation rather heavy. The Russians liberated us on the 8th of May.

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