Testimony of Joseph Weiss, born in Cehul Silvaniei, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Cehul Silvaniei, the Budapest Ghetto, in hiding, in Leipheim, Gailingen and other places

Testimony of Joseph Weiss, born in Cehul Silvaniei, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in Cehul Silvaniei, the Budapest Ghetto, in hiding, in Leipheim, Gailingen and other places His childhood in a Jewish religious community in an Hungarian area, including details about the culture and politics. Annexation of Cehul Silvaniei to Hungary, 1939; German Army occupation of Cehul Silvaniei, March 1944; deportation of his family to a prison in Cluj; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer of his mother and seven of the children to the Kistarcsa prison near Budapest; transfer to the transit camp on Columbus Street in Budapest; transfer to the Budapest Ghetto, October 1944; move by the Gordonia underground to a hiding place; placed in an orphanage while using a false identity; murder by Hungarian Arrow Cross men; rescue of Yossi Shefer, one of the Gordonia leaders, with help from Raoul Wallenberg; liberation, February 1945. Move back to Arad; Zionist aliya training; activities by the JDC; rehabilitation of young people in Sighet and Budapest by the Revisionist movements; move to Leipheim camp in the Vienna area, under the supervision of the Jewish Brigade, 1945-1946; move to Gailingen, on the Swiss border; illegal aliya attempt on the "La Spezia" ship, 1941 [1946?]; aliya to Eretz Israel, December 1947; stay in Atlit.