Zwi Steiger - March 27, 1982
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Zwi Steiger was born on January 17, 1922 in Velký Berezný, Czechoslovakia. After finishing his education in Munkacs at the age of sixteen, Zwi joined the Czechoslovakian army. During the Hungarian occupation he was taken to work in several labor camps. In 1944 Zvi escaped from a labor camp in Romania and hid in a forest for three weeks before being picked up by two Wehrmacht soldiers. The soldiers let him go and he made his way through Transylvania back home to Velký Berezný to collect his remaining belongings. Zwi then stayed in Cluj and Prague while attending medical school before moving to Israel to be with his brother. While attending a medical training seminar in the United States, he met and married his wife Amelia.
- Introduction
- Family
- Extended Family
- Hungarian Invasion
- Life Under Hungarian Occupation
- Religious Life
- Jewish and Gentile Relations in Velký Berezný
- Education
- Education II
- Joining the Local Militia
- Trying to Leave Slovakia
- Being Drafted into Labor Camps
- Sensing Doom
- Being Beaten Up
- Labor Camps
- Life in Labor Camp
- Life in Labor Camp II
- Family Sent to Auschwitz
- Beginning of Jewish Deportation
- Trying to Escape
- Brother Moves to Israel
- Escaping Labor Camp
- Going Back Home
- Collecting Belongings from Home
- Learning Fate of Family
- Learning Fate of Family II
- Going to Medical School
- Surviving Family Members
- Learning Fate of Family III
- Leaving Czechoslovakia
- Leaving Czechoslovakia II
- Moving to Israel
- Starting a Family in Detroit
- Wanting to Fight in the War
- Resistance
- Life After the War
- Receiving Grandfather's Record Book
- Nightmares
- Attitudes Toward Israel
- Opinions on the United States
- Meeting Future Wife
- Religious Attitudes
- Religious Attitudes II
- Conclusion
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