Testimony of Chana Hedvig (Zakar) Katz, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in a children's home and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Chana Hedvig (Zakar) Katz, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in a children's home and in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; religious, Orthodox family; she attends an Orthodox religious school; Detention of her father and his deportation to a camp outside of Budapest in 1942; German occupation, 1944; wearing a yellow badge; detention of her mother and her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; receipt of her mother's last letter; escape to the home of family members; her father works in a factory for a Hungarian friend; attempts to be included on the list of passengers on the Kasztner Train; move to the "Wallenberg House", a Red Cross children's home; deportation by the Jewish police to the Budapest Ghetto along with the children of the children's home; Budapest Ghetto life for 14 days; liberation; Return with help from a Jewish officer to her family's apartment, which had been robbed; move to a village; move to Oradea with the Jewish officer; she reads a diary from Auschwitz camp that was published in a local newspaper; return of her uncle and sister from Slovakia; receipt of a transit permit from the head of the Romanian government; move to Vienna; aliya to Israel in 1950.