Ornan Anchu Lev Ari

Testimony of Ornan Lev Ary, born in Vienna, Austria, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Cluj Ghetto, Auschwitz, Fallersleben, Thil and other places from an assimilated established family; his mother is an opera singer; his father is an atheist, socialist, anti-Zionist physician; attends a Jesuit Catholic school; move to Budapest, 1934; move to Cluj, autumn 1940. Establishment of the Cluj Ghetto; deportation of the family to Auschwitz; murder of his father because of his refusal to participate in Josef Mengele's research; suicide of his mother after the killing of an SS officer; transfer to Fallersleben; camp life including labor in a Volkswagen rocket factory; transfer to Thil; transfer to Longlaville; camp life; transfer to Dernau; camp life; transfer to Dora-Mittelbau, Yom Kippur (27 September) 1944; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation, 15 April 1945. Return to Hungary; studies at the Sorbonne University; Aliya Bet activities; move to Italy; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; starts a family.