Testimony of Shmuel Tzachor, born in Cierne Nekyje, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, using a false identity in Budapest, the Kasztner train and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony of Shmuel Tzachor, born in Cierne Nekyje, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, using a false identity in Budapest, the Kasztner train and Bergen-Belsen Childhood in Nitra; Bnei Akiva activities; increase in antisemitism; move to Bratislava, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; work as a cartographer in a "Jewish center". Registration and diagrams of the number of Jews before and after deportations; receives residence permit with his mother; receives knowledge concerning the extermination of Jews from two young men who escaped from Auschwitz; hides the escapees; activities by Gisi Fleischmann and Rabbi Weissmandel to rescue the Jews of Slovakia; deportation of his mother to Sered and her death, 1943; visit in Sered; escape to Hungary using forged documents, late 1943; receives money for border smugglers from the Bnei Akiva movement; life in Budapest using a false identity; German occupation, March 1944; yellow badge; anti-Jewish legislation; obtains forged documents through the Bnei Akiva movement; life with a non-Jewish family; informed on; change of hiding place; joins the Kasztner train; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, June 1944; camp life; liberation. Move to Switzerland; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.