Vera Haya Likhtenshtein

Testimony of Vera Haya (Adler) Lichtenstein, born in Vycapy Opatovce, Czechoslovakia, 1924, regarding her experiences in hiding in Piestany, detention in Hipolchoy and in hiding in Budapest using a false identity Life before the war; her father is active in the Jewish community and is a manager of a dairy farm; cultural life at home; attends a high school with Greek priests; restrictions on Jews; termination of studies. Eviction from their home, 1942; in hiding with her sister in a sanitarium in Piestany; return home; escape and then capture by gendarmes; detention in Hipolchoy; release from prison with help from her aunt from Hungary, 1942; move to Budapest; receives forged documents; scarlet fever; work as a caregiver for a Jew who converted to Christianity; move with her siblings from their home to a house in Budapest using a false identity; capture by a German police boat on the Danube River, 1944; help from Anton Tonko to escape from the boat; liberation by the Red Army; return to Czechoslovakia; shelling of her brother's house; liberation. Marriage; move to Italy; aliya to Israel, 1948.