Testimony of Zvi Goldstein Zahavi, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Nyirbator, the Debrecen Ghetto, Floridsdorf, Strasburg and in hiding

Testimony of Zvi Goldstein Zahavi, born in Nyirbator, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Nyirbator, the Debrecen Ghetto, Floridsdorf, Strasburg and in hiding Well-to-do, Orthodox family. Outbreak of the war; listens to the B.B.C.; disbelief of knowledge regarding the mass murder of Jews; anti-Jewish restrictions; ban on travel using public transportation; yellow badge; smuggled to Debrecen; teasing and abuse of Jews by Arrow Cross Party members; informing on and collaboration between the Hungarians and Germans; deportation of his father and brother, and their murder; deportation to the Debrecen Ghetto in a brick factory; deportation by train in the direction of Auschwitz; change of the destination of the train in the direction of Austria; arrival to Floridsdorf; camp life including forced labor clearing rubble; shelling of the camp; transfer to Strasburg; mass murder of the camp's inmates in a forest; finds a hiding place while hidden by an Austrian family; liberation, April 1945. Return to Hungary with help from the JDC organization; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair organization; aliya to Israel, 1949.