Testimony of Yehuda Iusca Ido Frid, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences using a false identity in Budapest, in a labor battalion in Szekesfehervar, Szodok, Hegyeshalom and other places

Testimony of Yehuda Iusca Ido Frid, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences using a false identity in Budapest, in a labor battalion in Szekesfehervar, Szodok, Hegyeshalom and other places From an Orthodox family; learns in a "heder", yeshiva and Jewish school; sings in the Great Synagogue choir; studies and works in a factory under non-Jewish ownership. Deportation of his oldest brother to work battalions in Ukraine; aliya of his father and sister to Eretz Israel; distances himself from Judaism; move to Budapest; work in a factory and economic help to his parents; joins the Communist underground and distributes fliers; life using a false identity; German occupation, March 1944; drafted to a work battalion, 1944; transfer to Szekesfehervar; transfer to Szodok; transfer to Hegyeshalom; transfer to Hangony; transfer to Kecskemet; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz, Shavuot (28 May) 1944; escape to Budapest; life in a Glass House until the liberation. Return to Satu Mare; attempt to illegally cross the border to Belgium; aliya to Israel, 1948.