Testimony of Bar Levav Meiri, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Szolnok, Kispest and Debrecen

Testimony of Bar Levav Meiri, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding his experiences in Szolnok, Kispest and Debrecen Traditional, Zionist family; his father is the clerk in a slaughterhouse; attends a Jewish school; Jewish studies; activities in Beitar youth movement; move to Kispest. Restrictions and abuse of Jews; obtains forged documents; drafted to Szolnok labor camp; camp life and labor laying railroad tracks, 1944; sabotage while at labor to the railway engine; return to Kispest; rise of the Arrow Cross to power; murder in the streets; move to Debrecen; obtains forged documents; receives protective documents including a Swiss protective document; liberation by the Red Army. Death of relations; joins a Zionist movement; preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel with the help of UNRRA; aliya attempt with Aliya Bet via Trieste and Zagreb; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; training and life on kibbutz.