Testimony of Yitzhak Kohavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1939, regarding his experiences in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Yitzhak Kohavi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1939, regarding his experiences in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto From a secular family for whom tradition was important. His father is drafted into the army; German occupation, 1944; transfer to a protected house; yellow badge; his mother is taken; being hidden in a Christian home; air-raids; transfer to the ghetto with his aunt; hunger; crowding; liberation by the Red Army, winter 1945. Return home; studies; joins Youth Aliyah; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948.