Testimony of Natan Brenner, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, in hiding and using a false identity in Budapest

Testimony of Natan Brenner, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1938, regarding his experiences in the Kosice Ghetto, in hiding and using a false identity in Budapest From a well-to-do, religious and Zionist family; learns in a "heder" and a government school; displays of antisemitism. Deportation of his father to a labor camp, 1943; German occupation and establishment of the ghetto, 1944; concentration in anticipation of deportation to Auschwitz; escape; in hiding in an attic, known as "the Bunker"; help from the outside; emptying of the ghetto; leaving the hiding place; walking by night; turned in to the border guards; return to "the Bunker"; departure in the direction of the Hungarian border; Bratislava; air-raids; leaving the city in a truck with a professional smuggler; crossing the border at night; meeting with his father in Budapest; warning not to be identified as a Jew; false documents; Arrow Cross people in the streets; arousal of suspicion regarding his Aryan identity; escape to an orphanage; transfer to a different orphanage; end of the war. Leaving the orphanage with his mother; residence in an apartment at the edge of the city; occupation by the Red Army; sharing the apartment with a Soviet Jewish officer and Red Army soldiers; incidents of looting and rape in the city; return to Kosice by wagon after a few months; membership in Bnei Akiva; receipt of certificates for legal aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Providence", 1947.