Testimony of Rachel Edith (Verdinger) Vardi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in a marked house, using a false identity and in hiding in Budapest

Testimony of Rachel Edith (Verdinger) Vardi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child in a marked house, using a false identity and in hiding in Budapest Life in Budapest before the war; from a religious family; attends a Jewish school; displays of antisemitism. Deportation of her father to a labor battalion; German occupation, 1944; the family home becomes a marked house; the house becomes a Swedish protected house; using forged documents, finds a hiding place in the home of a Hungarian couple; return to the family home; release of her father from the labor battalion; her father's death; "Aktion" and deportation of her mother to a brick factory; her mother's escape to the protected family home; life in crowded conditions; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move to a village with her mother; return to Budapest; life in Budapest including joining Hashomer Hatzair; crosses the border into Czechoslovakia illegally; move to Bratislava; move to Italy; aliya to Israel, 1949; life in Israel with Youth Aliyah.