Watch this clip of testimony from Charles Reiner, who recalls memories of the conditions along the death march from Mauthausen to Gunskirchen.
About the Interviewee
Charles Reiner was born on April 7, 1924, in Budapest, Hungary. Anti-Jewish measures began in 1938, the same year that his father died. The Nazis took over from the Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross government in 1944, deporting Jews to concentration camps. He was placed in Bruck an der Leitha, then Gunskirchen. He was liberated by American soldiers in 1945 and transported to a hospital for severe malnutrition and disease. He moved back to Hungary with his mother and stepmother and then to Canada. Charles was interviewed January 23, 1997 by the USC Shoah Foundation in Westmount, Quebec.