Testimony of Yael Edit (Quitt) Gerber, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest and under Swedish protection with help from Raoul Wallenberg

Testimony of Yael Edit (Quitt) Gerber, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences in Budapest and under Swedish protection with help from Raoul Wallenberg Life before the war; restrictions on the Jews including ban on studies; ban on attending theatre or opera performances; ban on hiring non-Jewish domestic help; escape of Jewish families from Poland and Slovakia to Budapest, 1939-1942; conversion of relatives and acceptance into high school with her sister, 1939; dismissal of her father, 1942. German occupation, March 1944; restrictions on Jews including night curfew, confiscation of the Jewish hospital; cutting off telephones; concentration of Jews in a Jewish neighborhood; life in the neighborhood including listening in secret to the BBC; murder of Jews by Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to a brick factory, late November 1944; transfer to the "Glass House" with help from Raoul Wallenberg; life in the "Glass House" including protection and food from the Swedish embassy; transfer to a Swedish protected house; life there; deportation of Jews from the protected houses; shooting of Jews in the Danube River; liberation by the Red Army, December 1944. Return to the family home; aliya to Israel, 1948.