Bumi Arnold Lazar

Testimony of Arnold Bumi Lazar, born in Spisska Nova Ves, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences in Vinor, Sered, underground activities in Bratislava, and in Theresienstadt Ultra-Orthodox family; helps his father who is a cantor in a synagogue; attends a German school; learns tailoring in Kezmarok, 1933; joins Maccabi Hatzair movement; move to Bratislava, 1938; work as a tailor. Deportation to Vinor, 1941; camp life including labor on roads and sewage; return to Bratislava; receives forged documents; underground activities; deportation to Sered, 1942; camp life including labor sewing uniforms; Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; liquidation of the camp; receives money to help Jews from a Red Cross representative; labor as a tailor sewing German Army uniforms; underground activities; arrest by the Gestapo, March 1945; torture by Alois Brunner; transfer to Theresienstadt; camp life including distribution of food to inmates; liberation, May 1945. Return to Bratislava; work as a tailor; rise of the Communists to power; order by the police to leave Czechoslovakia; move to Poland; move to France; aliya to Israel, 1949.