Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp

Laszlo Weisz was born on January 20, 1913. His wife, Edit Neubart, was born on October 9, 1917, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. They had a son, Peter, who was born on December 9, 1939, in Kunszentmarton, Hungary. In June of 1942, Laszlo was conscripted into a forced labor detail. He served in several labor units in Hungary, Poland, and Russia. In late 1944-1945, as the war ended, he was imprisoned in a labor camp in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union. Laszlo was a master watch and clock maker. He used these skills to survive the war, by bartering his services to repair personal time-pieces for soldiers. Laszlo was a prolific smoker, smoking as many as 50 cigarettes a day. After returning home to Hungary, he learned that his wife and 5 year old son, Peter, had been deported and killed at Auschwitz death camp. From that moment on, he swore never to allow himself the pleasure of smoking another cigarette. Laszlo remarried, to Ibolya Ungar, who was born on February 6, 1914, in Budapest, Hungary. They had a son, Robert. Laszlo passed away, age 70, in New York (United States) on October 4, 1983.