Testimony of Mordehai (Miklos) Weis, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences in Budapest, in a marked house, and in hiding with his sister under Red Cross protection and with the assistance of Raoul Wallenberg

Testimony of Mordehai (Miklos) Weis, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences in Budapest, in a marked house, and in hiding with his sister under Red Cross protection and with the assistance of Raoul Wallenberg The immediate family; studies; the Jewish community; father and two brothers are conscripted into the labor service; brothers die; restrictions imposed; the numerus clausus; refugees from Poland; German forces occupy Hungary in March 1944; the yellow star edict; Jews sent to Auschwitz; entering house marked with Stars of David; living conditions including those in the apartments; religious life in the apartments; Jews attempt to obtain certificates of baptism; Jew respond to Horthy’s announcement about disengagement of Hungary from the Axis; Szálasi’s Arrow Cross party takes over; Jews concentrated in a brick factory in Buda; death march to Austria; parents die in the death march; hiding with his sister in a building under Red Cross protection and with assistance from Raoul Wallenberg; conditons and housing in the building; Red Army forces liberate Budapest in 1945; hunger and searching for food; joining a children’s home under Jewish Agency patronage; staying in a children’s home under Agudath Israel auspices; receiving aid from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (“the Joint”); relocation to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, under the auspices of the Bricha organization; organizing ahead of participation in Aliya Bet (illegal immigration to Eretz Israel) in 1946; internment in Cyprus; immigration to Eretz Israel under Youth Aliyah auspices in 1947; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.