Testimony of Mnachem Erno Frenkel Peeri, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, his escape on the Kasztner train, and in Linz. Bergen-Belsen and Kreuzlingen camps and in other places

Testimony of Mnachem Erno Frenkel Peeri, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Budapest, his escape on the Kasztner train, and in Linz. Bergen-Belsen and Kreuzlingen camps and in other places Life before the war; religious-Zionist family; smuggle of children, by his father, from Poland to Eretz Israel via the port of Constanta; his father's activities as the president of the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement. German occupation, March 1944; detention of his father, mother and brother by SS soldiers; witness finds a hiding place under a bed with his sister; escape to his relative, Israel Kasztner; request for help from Kasztner in the release of his parents and brother; receives an instruction from Kasztner to present themselves at the railroad station in Budapest, approximately two weeks later; escape on the Kasztner train to Linz transit camp with his sister and cousins; camp life with 314 children; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, June 1944; camp life; transfer to Switzerland by train; life near Saint Gall; transfer to Kreuzlingen; camp life; meets aliya emissaries from the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement; work in agriculture; end of the war. Aliya to Eretz Israel via the port of Bari, using certificates (visas) to Eretz Israel, 1945.