Testimony of Yehuda Shaul Frenkel, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony of Yehuda Shaul Frenkel, born in Budapest, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest Family life in Budapest and Brasso; his father is active in the Mizrachi; his mother is the chairwoman of Hamizrachi women; witness is an active member of Bnei Akiva; learns in the Torat Emet Yeshiva. His family helps refugees in transit from Poland and Slovakia to escape on the Orient Express and helps with certificates; witness relinquishes his place on the escape route in favor of a cousin who is a refugee from Slovakia, 1942; entry of the Germans into Hungary; concentration of the movement's emissaries in Budapest; preparation of forged documents; marked houses in Budapest; arrest of his parents before the departure of the Kasztner train; rescue of his brother, sister and grandmother; interrogation of his father by the Gestapo in the same prison cell as Hannah Szenes; transfer of his parents to Kistarcsa camp; transfer of the witness by Kasztner to the Glass House in the Swiss Embassy; distribution of protection papers; release of his parents on Yom Kippur and their transfer to the "Glass House"; liberation by the Red Army. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Max Nordau" ship, 1946; detention in Atlit; absorption in the youth village in Kfar Hasidim; move to Kibbutz Ein Hanatziv and then to Kfar Darom, September 1946.