Testimony of Yehudit (Braf) Akerman, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, a protected house and using a false identity

Testimony of Yehudit (Braf) Akerman, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Budapest Ghetto, a protected house and using a false identity Well-to-do religious family; death of her mother; attends a Jewish school. Annexation to Hungary, 1938; draft of her father to a labor battalion; release of her father; German occupation, 1944; escape of the family with forged documents to Budapest; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life; move to a protected Jewish children's home; in hiding in a protected house under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg; her father was in hiding in the Swiss embassy; in hiding using a false identity; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Return of the family to Kosice; knowledge of the fate of her step-mother and her two daughters; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.