Testimony of Lea Chana (Shlomovitz) Hershkovitz, born in Selo Slatina, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house and the Swiss consulate

Testimony of Lea Chana (Shlomovitz) Hershkovitz, born in Selo Slatina, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding her experiences in Budapest in a marked house and the Swiss consulate Religious family; attends a public school; activities in Bnei Akiva youth movement. Re-annexation to Hungary; move to Budapest, 1941; death of her father; work as a seamstress in a clothes salon; responsible for her nine year old sister; activities in Bnei Akiva youth movement; German occupation, 1944; life in a marked house; restrictions on Jews; taken by Bnei Akiva members wearing Hungarian Army uniforms to the Swiss consulate; work in the consul reception; forged documents; detention while distributing forged documents; release from detention; return to the consulate with her sister; her sister is placed in a children's home; liberation by the Red Army. Aliya training in Sighet; reunion with her sister and brother in Budapest; move to Germany; starts a family; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; life on a moshav; move to Netanya.