Testimony of Benjamin Dror Friedman Yano, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest with the outbreak of war, escape to Romania and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944

Testimony of Benjamin Dror Friedman Yano, born in Satu Mare, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Budapest with the outbreak of war, escape to Romania and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1944 Family background; Satmar community; his father runs an alcohol factory; father service during World War I at the front; life before the war; studies in general schools. Shift to Hungarian rule, 1941; Antisemitic remarks; worsening treatment of Jews; limiting the number of Jewish students in schools; prohibition of business by Jews; move to Budapest, 1941; receiving a notice from his parents in Romania that they are taken away and in the future the witness gets to know that his mother was murdered in Auschwitz; assistance of the Jewish community in Budapest; joining a youth movement; the German occupation; Anti-Jewish legislation; stigma; concentration of Jews in a marked house; fake documents; the painter Shmuel Katz assisted in forging the documents; escape to Debrecen with forged documents; continuation of escape and meeting with the instructors of the youth movement; smuggling to Romania; bribe; move to Bucharest. Aliya B to Eretz Israel; absorption and acclimatization; meeting with the surviving father from a camp; life in the Eretz.