Childhood in a secular family; living in various towns due to her father's work; good relations with Christians;
Move to Budapest, summer 1942 or 1943; drafting of her father into a labor battalion, probably early 1944; German occupation, March 1944; air-raids; move to a marked house; move to a protected house; eviction of all the residents by members of the Arrow Cross Party, her father arrived in an army uniform and took her out of the group; continued life in the ghetto with many children; staying in shelter most of the time; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945;
Joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to...
Testimony of Meir Friedman, born in 1925 in Halmaj, Hungary, about his experiences in Halmaj and Budapest
Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Halmaj; German occupation of Hungary begins in 1944; Jews of the area rounded up in a brick factory in Kosiĉe; witness is transferred with his family to Budapest by a brother; entering a marked house in April 1944; escaping to the "Glass House" in October 1944; Arrow Cross operatives assault the house; saved by a German officer from murder on the Danube on December 31, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces on January 18, 11945; half a year in Vienna;...
Testimony of Gabi Gabriel Gabor Low Lev, born in Szeged, Hungary, 1936, regarding his experiences in Szeged, Budapest and in hiding places
Life in Szeged with his family.
German Army occupation of Szeged, 1944; deportation to Columbus camp in Budapest; transfer to a ghetto (name not mentioned); receives protective pasports; life in a Swedish protected house; wanderings between hiding places; liberation by the Red Army, 1945.
Emigration to Colombia, 1947; aliya to Israel, 1952.
Testimony of Eva (Reichmann) Shakhar, born in 1935 in Budapest, about life in hiding during the war
Life until the German occupation of Budapest in 1944; deportation to a marked house, then to a house under Swiss protection; witness escapes and hides in various places; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; life after the war; help from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; immigration to Eretz Israel via a displaced persons camp in Germany; exiled to Cyprus; interned in Cyprus; re-immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947; received at Kibbutz Magen.
Testimony of Eli Laslo Grosman Galili, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding his experiences in Budapest, in hiding and in Israel
Assimilated family.
Draft of his father to labor battalions, 1941-1945; deportation of his uncles, who lack citizenship, to Poland, 1943; [Germany Army] occupation of Budapest, 1944; life under [German] occupation including the decree regarding wearing a yellow badge and acts of harassment on the street; move to a marked house; work in a bakery; removal of the [yellow] badge; removal from the marked house, October 1944; move of his family to a protected house; in hiding in...
Testimony of Hava Eva (Sabadosh) Klugman, born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1937, regarding her experiences as a child using a false identity, in a protected house and in the Budapest Ghetto
Childhood in a secular, Neolog home; her father owns a workshop for antique furniture; attends a Montessori kindergarten.
Travel to Budapest by her father for business, 1944, and drafted to forced labor; being smuggled with her mother to Budapest; meeting her father; receipt of an identity card from a Christian woman; visiting a church; wanderings among different houses in Budapest; her mother's capture and deportation to...
Testimony of Maria (Steiner) Cohen, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1934, regarding her experiences in Budapest, in a protected house and on a death march
From a traditional Neolog Zionist family; education in a Hebrew school; Hanoar Hatzioni activities.
Outbreak of the war; drafting of her father and brother to forced labor; deportation of her father to Auschwitz and his murder; her brother's escape from labor camps and from detention by the Gestapo; German occupation, March 1944; restrictions on Jews; murder of Jews; brutal treatment by the Hungarian gendarmes; attitude of the Hungarian population; Allied...
Testimony of Ari Avri Doron, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1932, regarding his experiences in a marked house and under Swedish protection in Budapest
From a religious, Orthodox family; attends a Jewish Orthodox school; Jewish community life; cultural life in his parents' home.
German occupation of Budapest, 1944; deportation to a marked house; living conditions; transfer to a Swedish protected house with his family; liberation by the Red Army, 1945.
Return home; life after the war; membership in Hashomer Hatzair and Youth Aliyah; aliya to Eretz Israel from Bari, Italy on the ship, "Galilah", 1949.
Testimony of Yehuda Miklosh Vinter Talmon, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1929, regarding his experiences in Budapest including living in a marked house and in hiding
Residence in the Christian Quarter; displays of antisemitism; transfer to a Jewish school, 1939.
Drafting of the witness' brother into a labor battalion, 1943; German occupation, 1944; confiscation of the family shop and its inventory; deportation to marked houses; air-raids on his street and the nearby railroad station; harassment by Arrow Cross men; Salaszi's revolution; turning to the Church and asking for help; acceptance into a protected...
Testimony of Yosef Kalman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iasi
Life before the war; termination of studies at school; dismissal from work places; yellow badge and marking the outsides of houses; expulsion from his home with his family; transfer to Police Headquarters on foot with his family, June 1941; murder of those having difficulty walking; being put on closed trucks; jumping from the truck and finding a hiding place in a thicket; help from non-Jews; seeing the piles of corpses of those murdered by the side of the road; burning of Jews in a granary; death of his father on the...