Testimony of Ahuva (Davidovich) Elek, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Kosice, Presov, Bratislava and Budapest
Life before the war; attends a Jewish elementary school and a Hungarian high school; Jewish community in Kosice; Hashomer Hatzair activities.
Re-annexation to Hungary; life under Hungarian rule; deportation to Presov; meets her father; life under fascist rule in Slovakia; joins the Hashomer Hatzair administrative committee in Bratislava; agricultural training camp until late March 1942; escape to Budapest with help from the Hashomer Hatzair movement; arrest by the police; transfer to an assembly point; release effected by her uncle; return to Kosice; life under police supervision; labor in an orphanage.
Aliya to Eretz Israel via Romania, Istanbul, Syria and Lebanon, January 1944; move to Kibbutz HaOgen.
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item Id
5086799
First Name
Ahuva
Last Name
Elek
Maiden Name
Davidovich
Davidovitz
Date of Birth
10/06/1920
Place of Birth
Myslava, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives