Testimony of Shmuel Koren, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in a marked house, the Columbus compound and the Budapest Ghetto
From a hasidic family; learns in a heder and a Talmud Torah of Belz hasidim.
German occupation, March 1944; termination of studies; his father's deportation to a forced labor camp; transfer to a marked house, summer 1944; life in a marked house; transfer to the protected Columbus compound; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto, November 1944; ghetto life; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945.
Return home; return to studies and a yeshiva; aliya to Israel, 1957.
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Shmuel
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Koren
Korn
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1928
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives