Vera Gelert

Testimony of Vera (Fridman) Gelert, born in Felsogod, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto and in a hiding place for children under the protection of the Red Cross Life before the war; displays of antisemitism including breaking of the windows of the family's home. Help to the family, from the head of the local authority, to escape to Budapest, spring 1944; life in a marked house; antisemitic acts including attacks by Arrow Cross members on people waiting in line to receive a Schutzpass, protective passport; disappearance of her sister; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; escape outside the ghetto; life in a hiding place for children, under the protection of the Red Cross; return to her parents in the ghetto; ghetto life; liberation by the Red Army. Illness and convalescence in Szeged; joins Maccabi Hatzair; return of her sister from Dachau; leaves Hungary with a Maccabi Hatzair group, 1946; stay in Vienna; aliya attempt via Italy on the "Arba Heruyoth" ship; clash with the British near Haifa; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947 .