Testimony of Rachel Olga (Levi) Shemer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest as an active member of Hanoar Hatzioni

Testimony of Rachel Olga (Levi) Shemer, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1927, regarding her experiences in Budapest as an active member of Hanoar Hatzioni From an Orthodox family. Drafting of three of her brothers to labor battallions, 1942; joining Hanoar Hatzioni, 1943; assistance from the youth movement to Polish and Slovak refugees; underground activity forging certificates; her brother taken captive in Ukraine; German occupation, 1944; escape attempts through Romania; eldest brother impersonating a priest; detention of her father and his deportation; caring for orphans in a Red Cross home; capture of her brother, the priest, for interrogation regarding his assistance to Jews; residence in the home of a German woman using forged Aryan documents; smuggling food to the Glass House; typhus; liberation by the Red Army. Reunion with her family; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; absorption.