Journey to the Golden Door: A Survivor's TaleShengold, 1994 - 314 Seiten Memoirs of a Jew, born in 1925 in Kustanovice, a village in Carpathian Ruthenia. In 1933 Sommer's family moved to Mukachevo; after his mother died in 1941, Sommer moved to Budapest. Attests that antisemitism was strong and widespread in Hungary in 1942-44. In March 1944 Sommer was drafted into a Jewish labor unit in the Hungarian army; in August 1944 he escaped from the Csepel plant in Budapest where he worked as a forced laborer and hid on a farm near the city. In December 1944 the vicinity was liberated by the Soviets; Sommer, who knew many languages, joined the Soviet secret service, which attempted to track down fascists and Nazi collaborators. While in the Soviet army, Sommer was also confronted with many cases of antisemitism. After the war he settled in the USA. |
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... Berihah guides took us to the Keleti train station and we left for Szombathely . We had to spend a week there before the time was right for making the crossing to Austria . While we waited , we rehearsed how to behave at the checkpoint ...
... Berihah guides took us to the Keleti train station and we left for Szombathely . We had to spend a week there before the time was right for making the crossing to Austria . While we waited , we rehearsed how to behave at the checkpoint ...
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... Berihah and the Jewish Agency had arranged with Italy for the entry of refugees , there was opposition from several countries to this essen- tially illegal exodus . The British , in particular , who were in control of Palestine at that ...
... Berihah and the Jewish Agency had arranged with Italy for the entry of refugees , there was opposition from several countries to this essen- tially illegal exodus . The British , in particular , who were in control of Palestine at that ...
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... Berihah guides . They greeted us with many " Mazel tovs . " There were also several carabinieri ( Italian border guards ) , whose presence at first gave us some pause , but we soon realized that there was nothing to worry about . Indeed ...
... Berihah guides . They greeted us with many " Mazel tovs . " There were also several carabinieri ( Italian border guards ) , whose presence at first gave us some pause , but we soon realized that there was nothing to worry about . Indeed ...
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