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

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].