Testimony of Eliezer Brichta, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in prison and as a member of the Jewish underground in Budapest

Testimony of Eliezer Brichta, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bratislava, in prison and as a member of the Jewish underground in Budapest His childhood. Persecution of the Jews from the late 1930s; eviction of his family from their home, 1940; transfer to the Jewish Quarter; pogroms in the Jewish Quarter; fear of members of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler youth); arranging of Jewish protection for the Jewish Quarter; Nazi propaganda; Aryanization; yellow badge; ban on entry into public places; community support for the refugees; travel restrictions; abuse of those with beards; witness' escape to Hungary with his two younger sisters, February 1942; in hiding in various places; fear of the Hungarian gendarmes; capture by the gendarmes and detention in Budapest; release of the children from prison with help from the Budapest community; transfer to a Red Cross orphanage using a false identity; obtaining forged documents and food ration coupons from a member of the Jewish underground; German occupation, March 1944; work as a messenger boy for the underground; help to Jews in protected houses; disguises himself as a German and smuggles his sister out of the Budapest Ghetto; murder of the Jews and [throwing them] into the Danube river; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.