Testimony of Mór Lederer, born in Sopron, Hungary in 1887, regarding his experiences as the director of an orphanage in Budapest

Testimony of Mór Lederer, born in Sopron, Hungary in 1887, regarding his experiences as the director of an orphanage in Budapest Work as the director of an orphanage for boys; transfer of the children of forced laborers to the orphanage; British Army air-raids on the building on 17 September 1944; transfer of Jewish men and women who are 16 to 40 years old to forced labor in service in labor battalions in mid-October 1944; giving of protective documents of the Swedish Embassy and the Red Cross to the children in the orphanage with help from Valdemar Langlet and Raoul Wallenberg in April 1944; staff members of the orphanage receive protective documents from the International Red Cross; deportation of the children and the orphanage staff to the Budapest Ghetto by Arrow Cross Party men on 05 December 1944; killing [murder] of people; transfer back to the orphanage, thanks to Ambassador Weyermann; detention of the children by Arrow Cross Party men on 24 December 1944; transfer of the children to two buildings on Sziv Street in Budapest; making of contact with the president of the International Red Cross, Otto Komoly, on 25 December 1944; execution of two of the children; transfer to various places in Budapest; air-raids; escapes; murders by Arrow Cross Party men; among those murdered was the educator József Csillag; transfer of the children back to the orphanage; liberation on 13 January 1945; Interviewer: Margit Oblath.