Testimony of Moshe Haran, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1937, regarding his experiences as a young child using a Catholic identity in Martin, the mountains and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Moshe Haran, born in Zilina, Slovakia, 1937, regarding his experiences as a young child using a Catholic identity in Martin, the mountains and Bergen-Belsen From a patriotic secular family; his father's work at a zincographic printing press. Travel restrictions placed on Jews, 1940; appearance of the Hlinka Guards; yellow badge; forced lodging of a Hlinka Guard in his family's home; Aryanization of Jewish property; family move to Martin; attends a Slovakian school; studies the New Testament and prays in church; life as Catholics until 1944; observance of Jewish holidays in secret; Slovak National Uprising, 1944; murder of his father by German soldiers on suspicion of collaboration with the underground; his father's burial in a mass grave; his family's escape to the mountains; deportation to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; Red Cross visits to the model orphanage in the camp; typhus and lice; liberation by the US Army. Return to Zilina; reunion with his mother and brother; reinternment of his father in a separate grave; aliya training; joins Hashomer Hatzair with his brother; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Galilah", 1945; joins a kibbutz; marriage.