Testimony of Shoshana (Tushak) Gordon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Shoshana (Tushak) Gordon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding her experiences in a protected house and in hiding in Budapest From a middle-class assimilated family; attends an Italian high school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; decrees and restrictions on the Jews; ban on employing a housemaid; yellow badge; displays of antisemitism at school; German occupation, 1944; intensification of the decrees; drafting of her father to labor as an accountant at German headquarters; draft of young women over the age of 16 for forced labor; labor cleaning and clearing rubble; meets with Adolf Eichmann; life in a protected house with help from Raoul Wallenberg; Allied forces air-raids; rescue from death; in hiding in a coal cellar; Jews are informed on; deportation of her father to camps in Germany; her father's escape and return; liberation by the Red Army. Sexual abuse by Red Army soldiers; university studies; marriage; escape; aliya to Israel, 1949.