Zelman Moshkovitz

Testimony of Zelman Moshkovitz, born in Polana Kobilecka, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding his experiences in Budapest, forced labor in using an Aryan identity Orthodox family; orphaned at a young age; learns in various yeshivas in Rachow; learns carpentry in Budapest, 1941. German occupation; activities in the Zionist underground in Budapest; rescue of his brother; drafted to a labor battalion in a suburb of Budapest, October 1944; injury and hospitalization in a military hospital; escape and return to Budapest; life in Budapest using a false identity; liberation by the Red Army. Marriage; Hanoar Hatzioni aliya training in Fohrenwald; work as a shoemaker; aliya attempt with Dror youth movement onboard the "Shear Yishuv" from Bari, February 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, January 1949; life in Israel.