Testimony of Martha (Feher) Segal, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1919, regarding her experiences in Budapest
Death of her father, and life with a foster family; attends a Jewish school; marriage, 1940; relations with the non-Jewish neighbors.
Marking of Jewish homes as marked houses; details about sports organizations; draft of her husband to forced labor; flogging of her husband in the labor camp; evacuation of the Jews' homes; meets her parents in a hospital; receives help from a German; shortage of food and medicines; stay in a cellar; planning to make aliya to Eretz Israel; celebration of bat mitzvah in the synagogue; meets Giora Szenes; treatment of people and help to them in the Red Cross building; keeps children busy; typhus disease; liberation by the Red Army.
Departs Hungary, early 1946; meets Americans; move from Austria to Italy on foot; birth of her son in Italy; activities of emissaries from Eretz Israel; care of her sick son by a Croatian physician; attitude of the nurses in the hospital; aliya to Israel, 1948.
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item Id
3764776
First Name
Marta
Last Name
Segal
Maiden Name
Feher
Date of Birth
24/12/1919
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives