Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria

Testimony of Yechiel Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in a marked house and a brick factory in Budapest and a camp in Austria Life before the war; attends school; displays of antisemitism; the Jewish community. German occupation; deportation of relatives to Auschwitz; draft of his father and uncle to labor battalions; yellow badge; his Bar-Mitzvah celebration; contact with his father; move with his mother to a marked house; air-raids; death of his father in Buchenwald; rise of Szalasi to power; transfer to a brick factory; life in the factory; buys protective passports; transfer on foot in the direction of Austria; life in a camp including labor loading coal; escape on the train to Budapest; meets an Hungarian officer; meets his uncle; labor in a German hospital; liberation. Life under Soviet occupation; disappearance of his mother; return home; looting of their home by non-Jews; search for relatives; move to Debrecen; joins a Jewish children's camp; Hashomer Hatzair activities; instructs youth in the camp; enlists in the Haganah and activities in the DP camps; aliya to Israel with Machal, 1948.