Watch this clip of testimony from Max Eisen, who describes his personal experience of deportation in a cattle car to Auschwitz -Birkenau.
About the Interviewee
Max Eisen was born on March 15, 1929, in Moldava nad Bodvou, Czechoslovakia. In April 1944, the Eisen family was deported to a ghetto in Košice. From the ghetto, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Max was liberated at a subcamp of Mauthausen, and he was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust. Max originally gave his testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation in 1995, and in 2019, he was interviewed for Dimensions in Testimony. In 2015 and 2016, Max testified at the trials of two former Auschwitz guards. Max passed away on July 7, 2022.