Testimony of Szimha Otto Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in hiding, in a marked house, performing forced labor and in an orphanage in Budapest

Testimony of Szimha Otto Weisz, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in hiding, in a marked house, performing forced labor and in an orphanage in Budapest From a well-established secular family. German occupation, 1944; his oldest brother is drafted to a labor battalion; in hiding in the home of a Hungarian woman; move to a marked house; work digging anti-tank trenches; hospitalization; transfer on foot during air-raids and shooting; life in a Jewish orphanage; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Joins the Zionist movement; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, September 1947.