Conscripted slaves
Subtitle: Hungarian Jewish forced laborers on the Eastern Front during the Second World War
By: Robert Rozett
Contributors: International Institute for Holocaust Research
Publisher: Yad Vashem, International Instutute for Holocaust Research
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789653084483
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Persecutions; Forced labor; World War, 1939-1945; Conscript labor
Description: "From the spring of 1942 until the summer of 1944, some 45,000 Jewish men were forced to accompany Hungarian troops to the battle zone of the Soviet Union. Some 80% of the Jewish forced laborers never returned home. They fell prey to battle, starvation, disease, and grinding labor, aggravated immensely by brutality and even outleft murder at the hands of the Hungarian soldiers responsible for them. This study constitutes a unique and invaluable chapter in the mosaic of Holocaust history. The laborers' personal accounts speak powerfully to every Jewish family that lived under Hungarian rule during the Holocaust years, because it is their own personal story. But it is not one to be kept in the family alone, since it is profoundly relevant to all people."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.