Testimony of Jehuda Yudel Budin, born in Malta, Latvia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Riga, Stutthof and Magdeburg

Testimony of Jehuda Yudel Budin, born in Malta, Latvia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Riga, Stutthof and Magdeburg Life before the war; childhood with his mother after his parents divorce; learns in a "heder" and the local Jewish school; learns hairdressing; move to his father in Riga. Soviet occupation, 1940; marriage, 1941; German occupation, 1941; capture of his wife in an "Aktion" and her disappearance; deportation to the Riga Ghetto; transfer to the small ghetto in Riga, September 1944; ghetto life; forced labor, summer 1942-1943; deportation to a camp; camp life including labor in a sugar factory; transfer to Stutthof; transfer to Magdeburg; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; death march, April 1945; escape; liberation by the US Army, April 1945. Return to Malta; return to Riga; re-marriage, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1976.