Schwierige Heimkehr : Leben und Leiden in Ungarn, dann auf der "Exodus" und zurück über Bergen-Belsen nach Tel Aviv : jüdische Schicksale 1944-1948

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1932 in a small town and raised in Budapest. Focuses on events in 1944, following the Nazi invasion of Hungary, when he was interned, together with his mother and two sisters, first in a crowded "Jewish house" and later in the ghetto. Guttmann and his younger sister were moved to a protected house run by the Swiss Embassy, but fled back to their family in the ghetto. Later they heard that the protected house was overtaken by the Nazis and none of the children survived the Holocaust. After the war, Guttmann and his sisters left Hungary and passed through DP camps in Austria and Germany. The older sister left for Palestine alone. In 1947, David, his younger sister, and his mother (who had joined them) sailed to Palestine on the ill-fated "Exodus". Relates their trials and tribulations until they reached Palestine in April 1948. Guttmann later became a professor of social work at the University of Haifa. 1. Aufl. 131, 8 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm