Testimony of Moshe Shiloach, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932, regarding the experiences of his family in Budapest

Testimony of Moshe Shiloach, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1932, regarding the experiences of his family in Budapest Childhood in Budapest; antisemitism before the war; life under the rule of the Arrow Cross organization; helping Jewish refugees from Poland in 1939; transfer of his father to labor battalions in the Hungarian Army; obtaining forged papers for his father and hiding him; German occupation in 1944; escape with his brother and sister to a sheltered house under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy; air-raids; eviction of his mother to the Budapest Ghetto; release of his mother through paying bribes; escape from a forced march towards the Danube River; finding a hiding place in the cellar of a destroyed house; liberation by the Red Army; work for the Red Army; return to his family home; reunion with his family members; transfer to Pecs; return to Budapest; illegal border crossing to Zagreb with a Bnei Akiva group; transfer to Fiume; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946; detention by the British and deportation to a detention camp in Cyprus; life in the camp; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1947; absorption.