Moving to Amsterdam in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; mother produces furs for the German Army; father hauls merchandise for the Germans; Jewish children exfiltrated from detention; Aktionen; contacting the NV resistance; three children placed with Christian families in Treebeek in December 1942; denunciation and German manhunts; witness smuggled from hideout to hideout; parents deported to Auschwitz; grandmother dies in Sobibór; rehabilitation in residential institutions after liberation; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.
Testimony of Haim Gunsberger Genizi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto
Life before the war; implementation of anti-Jewish legislation during the 1930s;
Hiding of refugees from Austria and Slovakia; antisemitism by the non-Jewish population; transfer of his father to service in the labor battalions, 1940; release of his father, approximately one year later; German occupation, March 1944; appropriation of the Jewish school building, and halting of the studies; wearing a yellow badge; confiscation of property; marking of...
Testimony of Moshe Aharon, born in 1930 in Istanbul, about his experiences as a boy in Bucharest with the help of a protective passport from the Turkish embassy
Life in Turkey; offspring of a family of Romanian and Turkish origin; father deported from Turkey; moving to Bucharest in 1935; pogrom in the Jewish quarter in 1939; obtaining a protective passport from the Turkish embassy; concealing Jews in an apartment; father taken away for forced labor as a non-citizen in 1941; returning to home in 1943; the war ends; joining the Dror Habonim movement; immigration to Israel aboard the Transylvania in 1951.
Testimony of Aliza Aliz (Goldshtein) Stern, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Szekesfehervar, Budapest and a protected house
Childhood in an Orthodox home.
Deportation of her mother's family members to Kamieniec Podolskiy; murder of her mother's family members in Kamieniec Podolskiy, summer 1941; drafting of her father to a work battalion, transfer to Szekesfehervar by the Aid and Rescue Committee, autumn 1943; return to Budapest, early 1944; German occupation [of Budapest], March 1944; life under German occupation including restrictions, transfer to a marked house, search for...
Testimony of Mordehai Sternberg, born in Oroshaza, Hungary, 1922, regarding his experiences in Oroshaza, Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and the Budapest Ghetto
His father owns a factory; antisemitism during the 1930s; beating of the witness in school because he is Jewish; move to Budapest to obtain a profession, 1942.
Draft to a labor battalion; escape from a march to Ukraine; infrastructure labor in Debrecen and Szeged; escape to Budapest due to fear of deportation to Austria; receives a Swiss protective passport; move to the Budapest Ghetto; digging of a killing pit near the Danube River; murder of women...
Testimony of Esther Eva (Spiller) Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1926, regarding her experiences in Budapest, Kiskoros and more
Life in Budapest until March 1944.
Concentration in a school, 16 October [1944?]; labor digging [anti] tank [trenches] near Vacbottyan; delivery [distribution] of protection certificates (Schutzpass) by her mother; tearing up of one of the certificates by an Iron Cross [should be: Arrow Cross] officer, deliberation on whether to give the remaining certificate to her friend in order to save her life; transfer to Swiss protection; deportation to the ghetto; death of her brother;...
Testimony of Eva Renee Rivka (Weisz) Klang, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding her experiences in Budapest, a marked house, Bratislava and other places
Her childhood in Budapest including antisemitism and her attending a Jewish high school.
German Army occupation of Budapest, March 1944; life under German occupation including the imposition of anti-Jewish decrees; move to a marked house on Népszínház utca Street no. 49; murder of Jews in the marked house, August 1944; move to another marked house on Miksa utca Street [?] until October 1944; receives Swiss Schutzpass, protective passports; move to...
Testimony of Chaim Zilberman Caspi, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1941, regarding his experiences in Budapest, protected houses, an orphanage in Hungary, and in Transylvania and other places
Stories that he heard in his childhood.
Deportation of his father to labor camps by the Hungarians, 1943; death of his father toward the end of the war, 1945; German Army occupation of Budapest, 1944; deportation [of Jews] to labor camps; placed in a Red Cross protected house by his grandfather, along with his sister, 1944; escape from the protected house, with help from a Christian Hungarian, to a protected house of...