Testimony of Shemuel Hoffman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna and a death march

Testimony of Shemuel Hoffman, born in Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, a ghetto, Strasshof, Vienna and a death march Family life; his parents' livelihood; Shabbat and religious holidays; attends school and learns in a "heder"; Jewish community; antisemitism; move to Budapest for studies; draft of his brothers to the labor battalions. German occupation; return to Hajduszoboszlo; confiscation of property; deportation to a brick factory; deportation to Strasshof; disinfection process; transfer to Vienna; life in a school; forced labor; deportation in a death march; sleeps in stables; shooting of women in a forest; escape from the march with his mother and sister; in hiding in the bunker of villagers; life in hiding; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Budapest; reunion with his brother; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; aliya to Eretz Israel via Egypt, 1947; Haganah training; marriage and rehabilitation.