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Testimony of Meir Rutman, born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest.

Testimony
Testimony of Meir Rutman, born in Budapest, Hungary,in 1933 , regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest. Life before the war; attending a Jewish school; anti semitism; advertising anti-Jewish legislation; aryanisation of the family factory; transfer of his father to a labour battalion; murder of his father while he was trying to escape in 1943; food rationings; abuses of people from the arrow cross organization; transfer to a sponsored house of the ambassy of Portugal; suffering from starvation, cold and lice; air-raids; liberation by the red army; looting; rape of women; establishment by the authorities of "purification committees"; life after the war; activity in the Dror Habonim movement and afterwards in the Mizrachi movement; transfer to a DP camp in Leipheim; transfer to Salzburg; illegal immigration to Israel on board the ship " Exodus"; deportation to Germany; return to Salzburg; aliya to Israel in 1948; absorption; information about the labour camps to which his father was sent in Ukraine.
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item Id
10448769
First Name
Meir
Last Name
Rutman
Date of Birth
1933
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
24/04/2013
Date of Creation - latest
24/04/2013
Name of Submitter
רוטמן מאיר
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection