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The fake IDs that saved Jewish lives
Soon after Hitler ordered the invasion of Hungary in March 1944, the Nazis began rounding up hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews. Most were immediately sent to their deaths in the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. David Gur was part of a Jewish Hungarian underground group trying to help save fellow Jews from deportation to the death camps. He helped produce tens of thousands of forged documents, which allowed Jews to hide their true identities from the Nazis.
Now 91 years old, David tells Witness about his war-time exploits and his part in one of the largest rescue operations organised by Jews during the Holocaust.
