Testimony of Yechiel Hahn, born in 1932 in Budapest, about his experiences as a boy in protected houses of the Swedish and Spanish embassies in Budapest during the German occupation

Life before the war in parents' home; grandfather, Gerson Hahn, establishes a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in Budapest; antisemitism in school; father inducted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940; German occupation ensues in March 1944; secretly listening to BBC radio broadcasts; wearing the yellow star; shop nationalized; studies halted; movement restrictions imposed; ban on employing a non-Jewish domestic; concealing valuables; moving to a marked house; moving to a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in July 1944; a rescue and relief organization helps with food; bombardments; moving into a cellar; a Soviet soldier enters via the cellar in January 1945; liberation; father returns to family home; living with Yugoslavian partisans; moving to Sighet and living there until May 1945; back to Budapest; reclaiming the shop; returning to studies; joining the Zionist youth movement; moving in with members of the movement; serving as youth representative on the movement's high council; organizing for immigration to Eretz Israel as part of Youth Aliya in Villette d'Anthon, France; living in Brunoy; immigration emissaries visit; immigration to Israel aboard the Atzmaut from Marseilles in May 1948; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Israel.