Ana Miriam Maria Benedek

Testimony of Miriam Maria-Ana (Hegedus) Benedek, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest Assimilated family; her father is a manager in a yeast and liquor factory. Outbreak of the war, 1939; restrictions on the Jews; dismissal of her father from work; eviction from their home, June 1944; transfer to a marked house; life in the marked house; draft of her father to forced labor; receives a Swedish protection certificate, October 1944; escape with the help of her father to a shelter under the protection of Sweden; life during the air-raids; transfer on foot to the Danube River; rescue from shooting; deportation of her father to Mauthausen; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move from Hungary; marriage and birth of her son; aliya to Israel, 1971.