"The Germans occupied
Hungary on March 19, 1944, and imposed a new government. This government,
with German supervision and the enthusiastic participation of the majority
Hungarian population, brought in daily more and more restrictions. Jews
were not allowed to travel, at the train station they arrested all Jews,
who were interned and later deported.
Within weeks we had to wear yellow
stars. Within six weeks of German occupation, by the end of April, we had
to move into newly erected ghettoes. At first, these ghettoes were
organized only in the country. In Budapest at that time they established
the so called 'yellow star houses' where the Jews had to live, and later
they had to move to a ghetto too...."
István Katona, age 20,