Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home

Testimony of Yoel Erno Gruner, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1935, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and in a children's home Draft of his father to labor battalions; eviction from their home following the occupation; deportation of his mother to Austria; transfer to a Swiss protected house with his brother and baby sister; fascists take control of the children's home; in hiding in a barrel; move to a children's home under the protection of the Red Cross; liberation by the Red Army. Rehabilitation with help from the JDC; disappearance of his baby sister; report regarding the death of his baby sister; return of his mother from the camps; knowledge regarding the death of his father in Austria; joins pioneering movements in Segesd; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Knesset Israel" ship, 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, August 1947.