Testimony of Chava Eva (Morton) Bandler, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1936, regarding her experiences in a marked house, in hiding, in an orphanage and in a protected house in Budapest

Testimony of Chava Eva (Morton) Bandler, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1936, regarding her experiences in a marked house, in hiding, in an orphanage and in a protected house in Budapest From an assimilated family; average economic situation; attends a government school. Deportation of her father to a labor camp, 1941; German occupation, 1944; yellow badge; betrayal; arrest of her mother; transfer to a marked house; changes that occurred, October 1944; hiding in the home of relatives; raid by Arrow Cross men and German soldiers; arrest of the whole family except for the witness; transfer to a Red Cross orphanage, and from there to a house protected by the Spanish Consulate; receives a protective passport, November 1944; games in the protected house; street battles, January 1945; use of the protected house as a shooting position; entry of the Red Army; looting of the city; return home. Move to a monastery; move to Bekescsaba; living in the home of farmers; transfer to a Hashomer Hatzair children's institution; move to Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia; studies until 1949; aliya to Israel with a group of children, 06 March 1949.