Testimony of Margalit (Newmann) Zumer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding the experiences of her father Dr. Oskar Newmann and of members of her family in Slovakia

Testimony of Margalit (Newmann) Zumer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding the experiences of her father Dr. Oskar Newmann and of members of her family in Slovakia Childhood in a Zionist family in Bratislava; her father's activities in support of the Zionist project in Eretz Israel; her mother's activities in Young WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization); her father's participation in Zionist Congresses; hosting creative persons in their home; synagogue attendance; rise of antisenitism; German occupation, 1939; deterioration of Slovakian Jews' security; organization of "the working group" (underground unit for saving Jews) by her father, Dr. Oskar Newmann; paying bribes to high government officials; flight of her brother Reuven to their grandparents' house in Bytca; flight to grandparents' house on the grounds of the baron's mansion; gardening work on the baron's mansion in Bytca; persecution of the local Jewish population; wearing the yellow star; obtaining baptism certificates for her mother and herself from a Catholic priest; Slovaks hunting for Jews; hiding in an attic to escape the hunters; another relative finding an additional hiding place in the house; deportation of her father from Bratislava to the Sered camp; transfer to Theresienstadt; leaving the grandparents' house on the mansion grounds and flight with the additional relative to other local residents' houses; German soldiers breaking into the hiding place and her mother's interrogation about her husband, Dr. Oskar Newmann; arrival of Red Army soldiers; liberation by the Red Army; The family's return to Bratislava; her father's return to Bratislava exhausted; search for relatives; information about father's relatives who were sent to Auschwitz on the last transports; rehabilitation after the war; establishing refugee assistance offices; arranging food parcels for needy families; receiving permits to make legal aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; absorption.