Testimony of Sylvia (Ernst) Berg, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest in a marked house and with a Swedish protective passport

Testimony of Sylvia (Ernst) Berg, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1922, regarding her experiences in Novi Sad, Budapest in a marked house and with a Swedish protective passport From a well-to-do secular Zionist family; witness's father is a stamp merchant; escape to England, 1933; escape to Novi Sad, 1934; attends a public school; activities at the local Jewish cultural meeting house. Re-annexation to Hungary, 1941; deportation of her brothers to labor camps; deportation of her father to Jesenovce; confiscation of the family home by the Hungarian Army, January 1942; house becomes military headquarters; escape to Budapest with her mother; German occupation, March 1944; life in Budapest including living in a marked house; yellow badge, September 1944; deportation to forced labor, November 1944; escape and help from a group of Jews; escape to the family home; protective passport from the Swedish Embassy; liberation, January 1945. Marriage and aliya to Israel, 1950.