Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto

Testimony of Haim Yahalom (Diamant), born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, about his experiences in Prague and in Theresienstadt ghetto Childhood in Prague; German occupation ensues in 1939; father continues to work in manufacturing with the help of the German factory manager; deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto in 1941; placement in a children's home in the ghetto in 1942; parents work in a ghetto crafts shop, turning put leather accessories for the German Army in 1942; placement in isolation in the hospital hosopital due to typhus and tuberculosis; life in the ghetto, mainly of children, in 1941–1945; preparing the ghetto for a show performance; Red Cross mission visits in 1944; large-scale transports; deportees to extermination camps return in 1944–1945; liberation by Red Army forces in 1945; family returns to Prague in 1945; the Jewish community after the war; father dies en route to Eretz Israel while serving as Czechoslovakian Jewry's envoy to the Maccabiah Games in 1947; immigration into Israel in 1949; adjustment to life in Israel.