Yeshayahu Ernst Rikhter

Testimony of Ernest Yeshayahu Richter, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding his experiences in Vyhne, Kaliste and in hiding in villages and forests Religious family. Displays of antisemitism; confiscation of the family's business; detention of his mother and her release; obtains a protective passport; work of his father in a furniture warehouse; in hiding in warehouses and a cellar; deportation to Vyhne; camp life; rescue of the family from deportation to Zilina; escape of the family to Kaliste; wanderings in villages and forests in the area; in hiding in subterranean bunkers; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Brezno nad Hronom; move to Bucharest; return to Bratislava; attends a Slovak school; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; return to Bratislava due to tuberculosis; activities for Aliya Bet; detention; aliya to Israel, 1961.