Testimony of Mordekhai Tomi Shvartz Horshani, born in Budapest, 1933, regarding his experiences in Budapest

Testimony of Mordekhai Tomi Shvartz Horshani, born in Budapest, 1933, regarding his experiences in Budapest Childhood in a poor, traditional family; arrival of refugees from Poland. His father is drafted into the Hungarian Army as an ambulance driver, 1940; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; sister is hidden by a Christian family; move to a marked house; work as a newspaper vender; deportation and detention in the Great Synagogue in Budapest, September 1944; release after about 24 hours; obtains a Swiss protective passport; moves to a Swiss protected house; removal of the yellow badge; work as a courier delivering letters and messages among the protected houses in the ghetto; murder of Jews along the banks of the Danube River; his father's escape from a death march; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Antisemitism after the war; name change from Shvartz to Horshani, based on his father's hometown; aliya to Israel with help from the Bericha organization, 1949.