Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer

Testimony of Meir Andrash Weiss, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding the Budapest ghetto and hiding in the Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer Family background; his father owns a printing house; life before the war; studies in a Hungarian school; enlistment of his father to labor battalions, 1940; management of the family business by his mother. German occupation, 1944; duty to wear a yellow badge; dropping out of school; an attempt by his mother to flee to the province with the witness and his brother; ban on train travel; confiscation of printing machines in the family business; interrogation of his mother in the Gestapo; ghettoization; deportation order to his mother; deciding not to file for deportation; arrow cross harassment; escape from the ghetto, October 1944; hiding in the basement of a Jewish gymnasium under the auspices of a Hungarian officer; marching Jews to the Danube and murdering them; death of his father. Liberation; activity in Hashomer Hatzair; smuggling across the border into Austria; aliya to Israel in 1949; absorption.