Testimony of Eli Laslo Grosman Galili, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding and in Israel

Testimony of Eli Laslo Grosman Galili, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding and in Israel Assimilated family. Draft of his father to labor battalions, 1941-1945; deportation of his uncles, who lack citizenship, to Poland, 1943; [Germany Army] occupation of Budapest, 1944; life under [German] occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge and acts of harassment on the street; move to a marked house; work in a bakery; removal of the [yellow] badge; removal from the marked house, October 1944; move of his family to a protected house; in hiding in the bakery; obtains food for his mother from the bakery; deportation of his father on a death march; in hiding in the cellar of the bakery until the liberation, 1945. Joins a Zionist organization; departs Hungary, 1945; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Latrun" ship; detention in Cyprus; repeat aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life on Kibbutz Matzuba.