Testimony of Maria (Steiner) Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and on a death march

Testimony of Maria (Steiner) Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and on a death march From a traditional Neolog Zionist family; education in a Hebrew school; Hanoar Hatzioni activities. Outbreak of the war; drafting of her father and brother to forced labor; deportation of her father to Auschwitz and his murder; her brother's escape from labor camps and from detention by the Gestapo; German occupation, March 1944; restrictions on Jews; murder of Jews; brutal treatment by the Hungarian gendarmes; attitude of the Hungarian population; Allied air-raids; move to a Swedish protected house; removal of the family and others [from the Swedish protected house]; death march in the direction of the Danube and back; crowding, lice and food shortage; liberation by the Red Army. Return of their apartment and its contents; preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel; Hashomer Hatzair activities; aliya to Israel, 1951.