Testimony of Avraham Adar, born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, 1936, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding, a children's home and a ghetto

Testimony of Avraham Adar, born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, 1936, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding, a children's home and a ghetto His childhood in his grandfather's house following his parents' divorce; his father's remarriage; life with his father in Budapest when the witness is 5 years old. German occupation, March 1944; concentration of the Jews from assembly points; deportation of his father; separation; placed in a Jewish orphanage by his step-mother; life in the orphanage, and the children in the orphanage; escape during the transfer of the orphanage children to a ghetto; hidden by a Hungarian who was his father's business partner until it becomes too dangerous for the man to hide Jews; wanderings along the roads; joins a family that has many children; deportation to a ghetto; transfer to a children's home under the protection of the Red Cross; arrival of the Red Army to Budapest, February 1945; liberation. Joins a Youth Aliyah institution; aliya preparations and travel to Eretz Israel that lasts two years; fostered by a Youth Aliyah counselor named Esther; absorption in Kibbutz Yagur.