Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest

Testimony of Edit Esther (Kohen) Hakarmi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1922, regarding her experiences in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest Her family's life; move to Vienna, 1924; her father's return to Hungary, 1938; demand by their non-Jewish neighbors that they [her family] leave their apartment; receives a Hungarian passport; acts of harassment against Jews; Kristallnacht; return to Hungary, 1938; joins the Bnei Akiva movement; arrival of refugees from Vienna and Poland; receives help from the concierge of their building; ban on participation in activities of the youth movements. German Army occupation of Hungary, 1944; handing over of valuables for safekeeping; transfer to a Jewish marked house; air-raids including damage to the home [of her family] due to an air-raid; life under German occupation including travel restrictions and the obligation regarding wearing a yellow badge; transfer to another Jewish marked house; receives a Swiss protective passport in the Glass House; draft of her father to forced labor; break-ins by Arrow Cross men; her family receives forged protective passports; concentration of the Jews in the city square; transfer of the Jews to a brick factory; release with help from Swiss Embassy people; request for protection from the Swedish Embassy; meets Otto Komoly; return home under the escort of two Hungarian policemen; liberation of Budapest by the Red Army. Preparations for aliya with help from the Aliya Bet organization; [obtains] forged documents; life in Bucharest, for approximately one month; move to Constanta by train; illegal aliya attempt on the "Max Nordau" ship; capture of the ship by the British Navy; Atlit camp life; release from the camp.