Testimony of Mark (Jakubovich) Jacoby, born in Legina, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen concentration camp and Melk
Religious and poor family; learning in "heder" at the age of five in Snina; living with his grandparents; return home, 1939; aid the family's livelihood; Jewish life in the village; annexation of the area to Hungary, 1939; forced draft of Jewish men to labor battalions; German occupation, March 1944; deportation of the Jews to the Satoraljaujhely Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; life in the camp; labor outside weeding and in clinics; death march in the direction of the West; deportation by train to Mauthausen concentration camp, December 1944; deportation to Melk; forced labor building tunnels and working in the dust; deportation to Ebensee; liberation by the US Army, May 1945.
Date: 30.11.97
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