Zsidó munkaszolgálatosok a Donnál 1942–1943-ban
Jewish Forced Labor Servicemen at Don, 1942-1943

Summary/Abstract: Some 39,000 Jewish forced labor servicemen were sent to the Don River with the 2nd Hungarian Army in the spring and summer of 1942. In the anti-Semitic Horthy-regime it was quite natural that Jews could not fight with arms in the so-called “anti-Communist crusade”, which was in reality a war of genocide. Some 16,000 Jews were stripped of their ranks. They were forced to wear yellow (the converted Jews white) arm bands. They had no appropriate winter clothes in the Ukrainian ringing frost. They cleared the minefields, built trenches, roads, and bunkers. Many of their officers and guards tortured them, stole their rations, beat them to death, etc. Some 23,000 Jewish forced laborers perished during the 1943 January-February offensive of the Red Army. The present study is based on the published literature on the subject, the protocols taken in 1945 at the offices of the National Committee of the Care of Deportees, and the documents of the Hungarian people’s courts.

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