Testimony of Yacob Ferenc Ehrenfeld, born in Debrecen, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto and Austria

Testimony of Yacob Ferenc Ehrenfeld, born in Debrecen, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Debrecen Ghetto and Austria His family and parents' livelihood; life at home; displays of antisemitism; attends a school for the deaf; decrees; yellow badge; the Jewish community; Sabbaths and religious holidays. Deportation of his father and brother to forced labor; death of his father; shooting of people; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation in cattle cars to Austria; sleeps in a forest; selection according to gender; assignment to agricultural labor; transport to Vienna; transfer to a Jewish school; labor clearing rubble; severe hunger; collects cigarette butts; begs for money; march along the Danube River; attitude of the guards during the march; arrival to camp; camp inmates are human skeletons; shooting of a Jew; barter of shoes that belonged to people who had died; mother's typhus illness; liberation from camp. His mother's hospitalization; death of his mother; move to Budapest; reunion with his brother; aliya to Eretz Israel on an illegal immigration ship; sinking of the ship; arrival to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Atlit; declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel; Jerusalem under siege; rehabilitation and absorption in Israel.