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Testimony of Reuven Tzur, born in Oradea, Romania, 1932, regarding his family's experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Timsoara and Bucharest

Testimony
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Testimony of Reuven Tzur, born in Oradea, Romania, 1932, regarding his family's experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Timsoara and Bucharest Childhood in the family of well-to-do bakers in Oradea; Outbreak of the war; re-annexation of the area to Hungary; his father's deportation to the Gomel camp; transfer to forced labor; his father's release and return to Hungary; assembling the Jews in a school, March 1944; wearing the yellow patch; travel restrictions; curfew; deportation to the ghetto; hiding possessions; escape from the ghetto at the encouragement of a physician at the Jewish hospital in the Nagyvarad Ghetto; arrival a Catholic monastery; issuing of forged documents for the whole family; crossing the border illegally in a taxi without their parents; traveling by taxi under the care of an elderly man; his parents' arrival to Bucharest; transfer to a prison in Timisoara; release and escape to Bucharest; meeting with his parents; wanderings; finding an apartment; life there; attending school; end of the war; Move to Budapest, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, January 1948, absorption [and career as Professor of Hebrew Literature and Literary Theory at Tel Aviv University].
item Id
13406581
First Name
Reuven
Last Name
Tzur
Date of Birth
15/12/1932
Place of Birth
Oradea, Romania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
04/02/2019
Date of Creation - latest
03/03/2019
Name of Submitter
פרופ' צור ראובן
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video