Vera Eizenberg and Erika Yudasin

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.