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

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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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7440599
details.fullDetails.firstName
Moshe
details.fullDetails.lastName
Kandel
Kendel
details.fullDetails.dob
06/09/1932
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Budapest, Hungary
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Testimony
details.fullDetails.fileNumber
13234
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
details.fullDetails.earliestDate
14/09/08
details.fullDetails.latestDate
14/09/08
details.fullDetails.submitter
Kandell Moshe
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YES
details.fullDetails.numOfPages
33
details.fullDetails.interviewLocation
ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection