David Gor

Testimony of David Gor, born in Okany, 1926, regarding his experiences in Budapest and his underground activities From an assimilated family; his grandparents are traditional; father is a merchant; move with the family to Veszto at the age of 10; anti-Jewish legislation, 1938; restrictions on earning a livelihood; his father is unemployed; completion of his high school studies and travel to Budapest to find work; joins a Zionist movement within the framework of the Jewish National Fund, JNF; joins Hashomer Hatzair, which operates clandestinely, 1943; learns the construction trade; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, 19 March 1944; rumors about what is happening in Poland and Slovakia from Polish and Slovakian refugees, and from Chaike Grossman; forges birth certificates, identity cards and residence certificates with his friends; life using a false identity under the name of Vibor Farkash; forging of documents becomes institutionalized under the guidance of Haganah headquarters in Istanbul headed by Keren Hayesod director Moshe Rosenberg and Mrs. Brand, February 1944; contact with underground Christian movements from 15 October 1944; forgery work directed by Shraga Weill who returns to Slovakia after October; activities of the Budapest Rescue Committee: Joel Brand and Rezso Kasztner; 222 members of Jewish youth movements leave for Eretz Israel via Bergen-Belsen in the framework of the "exchange agreement" with the Germans; also supplies forged documents to Yoel Palgi and Peretz Goldstein, parachutists from Eretz Israel; capture and arrest of the forgers by the Arrow Cross, late 1944; Red Army approach, and disappearance of the jailers; in hiding in the Swiss Embassy until liberation, 07 January 1945.