Testimony of Elemer Diker, born in Pake, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Pake, Parajd, the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony of Elemer Diker, born in Pake, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Pake, Parajd, the Targu Mures Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places His childhood in the only Jewish family in Pake. Life under Hungarian rule including the ban on business administration by Jews, closure of his family's shop and closure of the Jewish schools; German Army occupation [of Pake], 1944; deportation to Parajd; transfer to the Targu Mures Ghetto; Targu Mures Ghetto life, including the attitude of the Hungarian gendarmes; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; death of his brother and mother in camp; transfer to Bunzlau with his father; hospitalization of his father in the Revier, the camp hospital; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Move to camps in Belorussia and Romania; illegal aliya attempt on the "Pan York" ship, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; life in Israel.