Testimony of Chaia Edith Shapira née Goldshtein, born in 1932 in Izsak, Hungary about her experiences as a girl in Izsak, the Budapest ghetto, and in hiding in Pestszenterzsebet

Life before the war; offspring of an Orthodox religious family; father assigned to fortification work; father returns several months later in 1941; father falsely accused of communist tendencies; father arrested and released; father inducted into labor brigades; witness escapes to Budapest; German occupation ensues in March 1944; wearing the yellow star; escapes to marked houses in the Jewish quarter; evicted from marked houses; taken with brother to a house under Swedish protection; sent to Budapest ghetto in November 1944; joins mother; obtains false papers and escapes from the ghetto; encounters Father Re Regocyi in Buda and finds a hideout in Pestszenterzsebet with his help; liberated by Red Army forces in January 1945; back to Izsak; placed along with brother by mother in a children's home in Deszk; organizing with groups of children in the Bnei Akiva movement for immigration to Eretz Israel; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Knesset Israel in 1946; deportation to Cyprus, immigration to Eretz Israel in August 1947; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.