Testimony of Shmuel Hopkovik, born in Nizny Hrabovec, Slovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in hiding, with the partisans, Oranienburg and Sered camps

Testimony of Shmuel Hopkovik, born in Nizny Hrabovec, Slovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in hiding, with the partisans, Oranienburg and Sered camps Childhood orphaned of his father who was killed in World War I; military service, 1937-1939. Life hidden with his wife by a non-Jew in Michalovce, 1942; trade in agriculture seeds essential for farms; life with the partisans, August-October 1944; deportation with his wife and daughter to Sered camp, November 1944; transfer to Oranienburg camp, December 1944; labor in a Heinkel factory producing aircraft parts; murder of inmates who forged money for the Germans; murder of a group of about 30 inmates and the witness' rescue after he pretends to be dead; Allied forces air-raids; death march, April 1945; liberation by the US Army in the Luebeck area, May 1945. Reunion with his wife and daughter who returned from Theresienstadt; life in Austria, 1948-1951; emigration to Canada, 1951; aliya to Israel, 1973.