Testimony of Jacob Alfred Yardeni Jacobowitz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding the Budapest Ghetto and the deportation of his father to the camps

Testimony of Jacob Alfred Yardeni Jacobowitz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding the Budapest Ghetto and the deportation of his father to the camps Family background; his father is a wealthy watch merchant; his grandfather is the rabbi of the Sephardic community in Cluj; conscription of his father into labor battalions in 1942; German occupation in 1944; move to a "marked house"; anti-Jewish legislation; air-raids; arrest of his mother and march towards Austria; remaining as sole guardian of his younger sister; escape of his mother and return to Budapest; move to a protected house; deportation to the ghetto; his work clearing the dead in exchange for food; liberation of the ghetto; leaving with his mother and sister and moving to Cluj; loss of all family members living in Cluj; return of his father from the Sachsenhausen camp after the war; Bar Mitzvah celebration with Jewish survivors in Cluj; aliya to Israel in 1949.