Memoirs of Ignác Horovic, born in Subotica, Yugoslavia, 1897, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in the Hungarian Army labor battalions, 1939-1945 Vacation spent by Ignác Horovic and his wife Éva in Malo-les-Bains, France, 31 August 1939. Order expelling foreign citizens from France; failure of Ignác and Éva Horovic to obtain a visa to countries in South America; decision to return to Subotica; German occupation of Yugoslavia and annexation of the Délvidék area (including Subotica) to Hungary, spring 1941; execution of Jews suspected of anti-Hungarian activities; anti-Jewish legislation; mass murder of Jews in Újvidék, January 1942; drafting of Jewish men to Hungarian Army labor battalions; draft of Ignác Horovic to a labor battalion in Zombor; life in a labor battalion; transfer to construction work on an airfield in Bácskertes; release from Labor Battalion No. 105/5 and return home; German occupation of Hungary, spring 1944; deportation of the Subotica Jews to the ghetto; yellow badge; draft of Ignác Horovic to forced labor logging trees in the forest; transfer of Ignác Horovic to Labor Battalion 105/302 to build the airfield in Újvidék; receipt of a postcard from Éva notifying him of the deportation of the family from the ghetto to camps, 16 June 1944; transfer of the battalion to Kunmadaras to build an airfield; retreat of the battalion into the interior of Hungary with the approach of the Red Army; arrival of the battalion in the Budapest area; desire of the forced laborers to obtain protective passports from the neutral embassies in order to move to protected houses; continuation of the retreat across the Austrian border; escape of Ignác Horovic with six friends from the battalion, 24 December 1944; being hidden by a farmer in Oroszlány; liberation by the Red Army. Description of a Red Army soldier regarding the crimes committed by the Germans against the Jews of Charkov; move in the direction of Subotica; taken captive by the Red Army; escape from captivity and return home. Also in the file: Musical notes for a song sung by Ignác Horovic during the time he was a forced laborer and while en route home.