Testimony of David Ben Basat, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Lom and Ihtiman

Testimony of David Ben Basat, born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Sofia, Lom and Ihtiman Life in Sofia before the war; his father owns a sausage shop; activities in the Poalei Zion movement. Anti-Jewish restrictions including the closure of businesses; deportation of men to forced labor; yellow badge; deportation with the Jews to outlying towns; transfer to Lom; life in Lom in detention; labor in a mine; escape to his grandfather in Ihtiman, with the help of bribery; end of the war. Return to Sofia; aliya to Israel, 1948.