Avraham Agasi Birnboim

Testimony of Abraham Birnbaum Agassi, born in Debrecen, 1918, regarding his experiences in Novaki camp and using a false identity in Budapest Religious family; father is a Torah scholar; move to Beregszasz; father teaches in a yeshiva; witness attends Hungarian school; move to a yeshiva in Ungvar; move to a yeshiva in Szobranc; move to Viso; move to Surany; closing of the yeshiva; decision to make aliya to Eretz Israel via Bratislava with the help of Hapoel Hamizrachi; sailing on the Dunau River; closing off of the Dardanelles by the Germans; capture of the ship by the Germans; deportation to Novaki labor camp; forced labor disassembling barracks, establishing a sewing workshop and cutting textiles; escape with the help of a Jewish friend who has Aryan documents; hiding in Nyitra with a rabbi; escape to Budapest and obtaining Aryan documents; work as a textile cutter in an Hungarian company; joining the Kasztner train to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Switzerland; aliya via Italy to Eretz Israel using a certificate.