Testimony of Yitzkhak Libovitz, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1937, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Slovakia

Testimony of Yitzkhak Libovitz, born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1937, regarding the persecution of his family and his experiences in Slovakia Son of an Orthodox Jewish family; father a carpenter; partition of Czechoslovakia; the Slovakian fascist regime; father receives an order to report to the Nováky camp in 1941; father’s labor in carpentry during the renovation of the camp; deportation of mother and five children to Nováky in 1942; life in the camp; study and work; weekly transports to the extermination camps; father removed by the German commanding officer from the list of those to be transported; outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising in August 1944; escape to the region of the partisans; finding a hiding place in a forest hut in Staré Hory; manhunts by the Germans; gunfire at the hut; capture by Hungarian soldiers in May 1945; aliya to Israel in 1949.