Testimony of Yosef Yosko Resler Chaimovitz, born in Veliky Bockov, 1927, regarding his experiences using a false identity as a German soldier and his encounter with Raoul Wallenberg

Testimony of Yosef Yosko Resler Chaimovitz, born in Veliky Bockov, 1927, regarding his experiences using a false identity as a German soldier and his encounter with Raoul Wallenberg The family before the war; the Jewish community; listening to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's speeches; school; relations with neighbors. Germans praying to murder Jews; move to Budapest, 1942; disguised as a non-Jew using a false identity; deportation of his brother to a camp; purchasing a gun from a Wehrmacht soldier; drafted to pre-military training; guarding a convoy Hitler was supposed to be in; military training; new draftees take their oath before Szálasi; combat against Russian forces; army uniforms; eating horse meat; killing of Fascists; blowing up of bridges by the Germans; meeting with Raoul Wallenberg; murder of Jews on the banks of the Danube River; identifying Jewish homes; confiscation of Jewish owned property; Jews transferred letters to Wallenberg from the ghetto; Jews who converted to Christianity; correspondence between Jews in the ghetto and Kasztner; entry into the ghetto wearing his German army uniform; knowledge that his parents and relatives were murdered in Bockov; capture by the Russians; transfer on foot and train to Vienna; encounter with a Jewish Russian army officer; identifying himself as a Jew; escape from captivity. Travel by train to Budapest; reunion with his sister; reporting to Youth Aliyah; receives help from the JDC; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel, 1945; drafted to the Haganah; combat in Israel's War of Independence; absorption and rehabilitation in Israel.