Testimony of Nechama (Kulka) Schönwald, born in 1937 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences as a girl in Topolcany, in the Novaky camp, and in hiding in the mountains

Testimony of Nechama (Kulka) Schönwald, born in 1937 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences as a girl in Topolcany, in the Novaky camp, and in hiding in the mountains Offspring of an Orthodox religious family in Kosice; moves to Topolcany in 1938; father sent to a labor camp in 1941; construction of Novaky camp; authorities mistreat mother; father works as a cook; family deported to the camp; mother runs a sewing shop in the camp; Jewish community deported to extermination camps; maintaining Jewish dietary laws and religious life; Slovak Uprising breaks out in August 1944; witness escapes to the mountains; partisans and local inhabitants help; German manhunts; area liberated by Belorussian soldiers; pogrom against Jews of Topolcany in 1947; father injured in the pogrom; immigration to Israel in 1949.