Testimony of Menachem Kestenbaum, born in Puspokladany, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in the Puspokladany Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof, Kienberg and other places

Testimony of Menachem Kestenbaum, born in Puspokladany, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in the Puspokladany Ghetto, Debrecen, Strasshof, Kienberg and other places Life before the war; hasidic family; displays of antisemitism, 1943. German occupation, March 1944; termination of studies; yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; deportation of people lacking Hungarian citizenship; deportation to the Puspokladany Ghetto, May 1944; Puspokladany Ghetto life including observance of the Shavuot holiday; transfer to Debrecen; life in Debrecen including his mother having a miscarriage; deportation on a train and separation from his mother; transfer to Strasshof with his father and siblings; transfer to Kienberg; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory with his father and sister; his younger siblings remain in camp; receives help from French POWs; prayers; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, December 1944; camp life including efforts to obtain food; singing on Shabbat; his father keeps kosher; observance of Pesach; transfer to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt including typhus disease; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Hospitalization in a hospital; convalescence and return to the family's home with his father and siblings; search for his mother; aliya training with the Bnei Akiva movement; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1948.