Joint testimony of Vera (Schwarz) Eizenberg, born in Bratislava, 1934 and Erika (Schwarz) Yudasin, born in Bratislava, 1933, regarding their experiences in hiding, using a false identity and their aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1943
Joint testimony of the Schwarz sisters, daughters of Heinrich Schwarz, head of the Judenrat in Bratislava; sheltered childhood; detention of their father; his release several months later; smuggle of their father to Budapest and his life in hiding in a Jewish hospital; stay in their home in Bratislava; smuggle of the sisters to Budapest using forged documents, May 1942; stay in the same hospital as their father; transfer of Erika, the older sister, to Nove Zamky, late August 1942; transfer of Vera, the younger sister, to Kosice; stay of their younger brother on a farm in Kispest; sisters join the second and last transport of Youth Aliyah, using Yugoslavian passports, 1943; separation from their parents; travel; sisters cross the frozen Danube River in Bulgaria, on foot; reception by the Aleppo community; travel by bus to Atlit; visit by Henrietta Szold; absorption.
Fate of their parents and brother.
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3564812
First Name
Vera
Erika
Last Name
Eizenberg
Yudasin
Maiden Name
Schwarz
Shvartz
Shvartz
Schwarz
Date of Birth
1934
1933
Place of Birth
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
10283
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives