Yehuda Ziv

Testimony of Yehuda Ziv, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in hiding in Nitra and using a false identity in Bratislava Orphaned of his mother at a young age; attends a religious-Orthodox school; placed in an orphanage in Austria with his brother; return to Nitra after the Anschluss, 1938; activities in the Bnei Akiva movement. "Aktions", 1942-1944; in hiding in an attic; help from the neighbors; move to Bratislava; receives forged documents; life using a false name; approach of the front, 1944; forced labor digging for the Todt organization; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Help from the Caritas organization and the Joint; renewal of contact with the Bnei Akiva movement; aliya training in Bratislava; sets sail via Marseille on the "Yagur" ship and aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; release, 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel; life with Youth Aliyah in the Mikveh Israel school.