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The person in question has given us the following information: I started my
labour
service on May 11, 1942 in
Tápiósüly where we dug
sewers standing in the chest-high water. Moreover after work we had
exercise
too. It was forbidden to have visiting
family
members and so was obtaining
food
through them. If despite of this we managed to get some
food
then
Lieutenant
Kőszegi punished us in the cruellest way: he
compelled us to do
exercise and
trussed
people up.
Sergeant
Forgács urged us to
work by shooting
around our feet and hitting us with a rifle. butt. From here we were taken to
Nagykáta where
Lieutenant
Colonel
Muray
tortured people and
hit us
in the face because the
yellow star was never sewn on our
clothes
in a proper way. Fifty-five of us were crammed into a very
small
room; it was impossible to even move. We could
wash
ourselves only in the canal. We had a
lance
sergeant (unfortunately I do not know his name, all I know is that he used to be a
barber in the Pajor
sanatorium in
Budapest), who
kicked and
beat people and did not allow us to report as
sick.
From
Nagykáta we
were taken to
Ukraine. When we arrived at the station, the
Hungarian
soldiers who were leaving for home made the following remark:
They aren’t coming
back for sure...
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The
deputy commander of the company was
Warrant
Officer
Leidl, who talked to the men in the rudest tone.
Lance
Sergeant
Bajor (a worker from a
Pest brick
factory)
beat the people all the time and told us many times that we were all
going to perish. When we came home from
work in
the evening, he even made us
exercise.
Lance Sergeant
Borza was a guard to
labour service
company no. 101/11 and the whip never rested in his hands. Once we were leaving for
work at 7 am in double quick pace and I tripped and fell in the darkness.
Borza stepped up to me and while shouting that I
was a saboteur, he
beat me to a pulp.
Privates
Bottka and
Bótha were also very
cruel
to the
labour servicemen. Later
Warrant
Officer
Ligety (of Jewish descent) was
appointed
commander of our
company. He also committed a series of
cruel
acts. He called upon the guards to
torture
us and every so often he declared that on his list of priority number one was the
Hungarian
soldier, number two was nobody, number three was nobody too and the Jew came only
after these: he also said that there was no other way to talk to the Jews only by a whip.
Cadet
Sergeant Fritz (a
counterintelligence officer) took away all of our
clothes. He
beat people with a whip; he walked around with a whip in his hand.
On October 22, 1942
partisans attacked the village where we were accommodated. Forty-one
brothers-in-arms and me joined the
partisans and fought the
Germans. I was a
partisan until November 10, 1943, then for three
months I worked as a
physician. Later I was taken to another civilian
hospital. Later I was sent to a one-month-long further training to
Orel. I came back to
Hungary with a mixed
transport through
Romania.