Testimony of Menachem Miklosh Miron Mermelstein, born in Szombathely, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Ujpest Ghetto, Columbus camp, Budapest and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Menachem Miklosh Miron Mermelstein, born in Szombathely, Hungary, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Ujpest Ghetto, Columbus camp, Budapest and Bergen-Belsen Religious family; move to his grandparents in Ujpest; attends a religious Jewish school, "heder" and learns in a yeshiva; Zionist activities; learns Hebrew; move to a general school; studies philosophy and psychology at a university in Budapest and a rabbinical "Beit Midrash" (religious study hall); livelihood from lectures and private tuition. German occupation, 1944; deportation with his mother to the Ujpest Ghetto; draft of his father and brothers to forced labor; deportation to a brick factory in Budapest; rescue by his future father-in-law; move to the international Colombus camp; camp life, July-December 1944; marriage; deportation with young men to Bergen-Belsen, 14 December 1944; camp life and giving lectures in the camp; typhus; transfer to Troebitz; liberation. Recuperation and return home; continuation of studies at university; ordained as a rabbi; appointment as a rabbi of Ujpest until 1950; escape; aliya to Israel, 1950.