Testimony of Dan Ivan Talmon Steiner, born in Velika Kikinda, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Velika Kikinda, Belgrade, labor battalions in Hodmezovasarhely, in hiding in Budapest and other places

Testimony of Dan Ivan Talmon Steiner, born in Velika Kikinda, Yugoslavia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Velika Kikinda, Belgrade, labor battalions in Hodmezovasarhely, in hiding in Budapest and other places Life before the war; well-to-do Neolog family. German occupation, 1941; detention; restriction on the Jews; torture then release of his father; deportation of the Jews to a synagogue, August 1941; transfer to Novi Becej; transfer to Belgrade; release of women and children; move by his mother to his uncle; escape with his uncle's family to Novi Sad, September 1941; escape with his uncle's family; escape to Mali Idjos to an uncle who converted to Christianity and married a German; life in Mali Idjos including arrest; life in prison; court trial due to illegally crossing the border; his aunt appears at the trial and requests his release; life with his uncle; life with relatives in Senta; life with relatives in Budapest; reports weekly to the police; arrest with the intention to transfer him to the Banat area; release due to bribery; life until 1944; German occupation, March 1944; concentration with the Jews; transfer to a labor battalion in Hodmezovasarhely; life in Hodmezovasarhely including futile labor; transfer to the Austrian border, June 1944; transfer to a brick factory in Budapest; camp life including labor manufacturing bricks; escape, 15 October 1944; in hiding with the help of forged documents; liberation by the Red Army, 24 December 1944. Return to the family home; joins the partisans; life with the partisans as a driver until September 1945; aliya to Israel, 1949.