Testimony of Yehudith (Grinbaum) Ben Gama, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a young girl in Mezokovesd and in hiding in a convent in Budapest

Testimony of Yehudith (Grinbaum) Ben Gama, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding her experiences as a young girl in Mezokovesd and in hiding in a convent in Budapest Life before the war; childhood in an Orthodox family; attends a Hebrew school. Deportation of her father to labor battalions, 1942; hosting of Polish refugees, end September (Sukkot) 1942; placing limits on ritual slaughter; German occupation, 1944; being smuggled illegally to Mezokovesd by train; taking off the yellow badge on the train; detention on account of being informed on; transfer to Budapest; life in a "marked house"; life in hiding in a convent; hiding her Jewish identity from the nuns; liberation. Return of her father from Mauthausen; move from Germany with the Bricha organization; life in a German DP camp; aliya to Israel, 1948; memorialization of the Mezokovesd community in Yad Vashem.