Testimony of Mordehai Sternberg, born in Oroshaza, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Oroshaza, Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and the Budapest Ghetto

Testimony of Mordehai Sternberg, born in Oroshaza, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Oroshaza, Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and the Budapest Ghetto His father owns a factory; antisemitism during the 1930s; beating of the witness in school because he is Jewish; move to Budapest to obtain a profession, 1942. Draft to a labor battalion; escape from a march to Ukraine; infrastructure labor in Debrecen and Szeged; escape to Budapest due to fear of deportation to Austria; receives a Swiss protective passport; move to the Budapest Ghetto; digging of a killing pit near the Danube River; murder of women and children in the ghetto by fascists; liberation. Return of his parents and brother from Austria; joins the Zionist movement; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Israel" ship, 1946; detention in Cyprus.