Testimony of Tova Edit (Manheimer) Glazer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences while using a false identity and in Auschwitz and Jelenia Gora camps
Testimony of Tova Edit (Manheimer) Glazer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences while using a false identity and in Auschwitz and Jelenia Gora camps
Testimony of Tova Edit (Manheimer) Glazer, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1929, regarding her experiences while using a false identity and in Auschwitz and Jelenia Gora camps
Religious family with six children; her father was a travel agent; antisemitic riots before the war.
Move with her family to Nitra, 1941; receives Aryan documents; work as a nanny while her family was in hiding; rescue from the deportation of the Nitra Jews due to the intervention of the Hlinka Guard organization, 1942; work while using a false identity in order to earn a livelihood for her parents, until 1944; escape from a transport to Sered, autumn 1944; deportation to Auschwitz, October 1944; camp registration process in Auschwitz; camp life in Lager number three; transfer to Jelenia Gora camp, winter 1944-1945; coordination of a strike; liberation by the Red Army.
Travel on foot in the direction of Slovakia; reunion in Nitra with her mother and two sisters who survived; work in a Hashomer Hatzair children's home in Bratislava; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.
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4064716
First Name
Edit
Tova
Last Name
Glazer
Manheimer
Date of Birth
1929
Place of Birth
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
8376
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives