Yitzkhak Livni

Testimony of Yitzhak Livni, born in Sashalom, Hungary, 1926, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Szolnok and in Mauthausen Traditional family; life before the war; education; membership in the Beitar youth movement. Restrictions on Jews including the dismissal of his father; draft of his father to forced labor; German occupation, March 1944; restriction on Jews including the yellow badge; drafted to forced labor; training; transfer to Szolnok; air-raids by the British; escape in a train to the Austrian border; move to Austria; forced labor under a German commander; life in Austria; deportation on foot to Mauthausen; transfer on foot to Hungary; encounter with Red Army soldiers. Life in a former POW camp in Hungary; move to his aunt in Budapest; reunion with his mother; member ship in a youth movement; aliya training; marriage in Italy, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1948; starts a family.