Nikolas Miklosh Kohen

Testimony of Nikolas Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, a children’s home under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg and in eastern Hungary From a financially secure Neolog family; family owns a tailoring shop. Outbreak of the war; draft of his father into the army; German occupation, March 1944; life under fascist rule; marking of Jewish houses; confiscation of possessions; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life in a protected house including labor in a block factory; joins a youth movement; life in a children's home; joins a children's home under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg; shelling by the Red Army; escape to eastern Hungary; separation from his parents; return to Budapest; life in hiding in cellars; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Reunion with his father; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Atzmaut", 1949; absorption on Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev; aliya of his father and sister; enlists in the IDF.