Testimony of Dov Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto and Szeged

Testimony of Dov Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Budapest Ghetto and Szeged Orthodox, religious family; attitude of the Christians, before the war; increase in antisemitism. German Army occupation of Budapest; life under German occupation including expulsion from school; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge and acts of harassment on the street; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; handing over of money and gold; Budapest Ghetto life including overcrowding and hunger; capture of his father and his deportation to labor; disappearance of his father; his sister pretends to be ill with tuberculosis, [in order] to stay outside the ghetto; liberation. Move to an ultra-Orthodox dormitory with his brother; escape from the dormitory [and move] to the Dror movement; receives pioneering education in Szeged; illegally crosses the border to Italy; aliya to Israel, 1948.