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Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony
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Testimony of Moshe Kandel, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; from a Neolog family; attends Jewish schools; numerus clausus; Deportation of his father to a labor battalion; disappearance of his father; meets refugees from Poland; German occupation, March 1944; imposition of restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; confiscation of Jewish homes; concentration of Jews in marked houses (with a Star of David); rise to power of the Arrow Cross; murder of Jews in the Danube River; deportation of Jews including his mother to the Austrian border; murder of his mother; deportation together with his sister to a brick factory; transfer to the ghetto; ghetto life; death of people in the cellar and their burial in a mass grave; receiving a protection certificate; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; Move to Szeged; life there; moving into a children's home within the framework of the Dror Habonim movement; move to Yugoslavia; aliya to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet; detention in Cyprus; life there; aliya to Israel, 1947.
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item Id
7440599
First Name
Moshe
Last Name
Kandel
Kendel
Date of Birth
06/09/1932
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13234
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
14/09/08
Date of Creation - latest
14/09/08
Name of Submitter
Kandell Moshe
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
33
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository