Testimony of Yurai Rebs, born in Holic, Czechoslovakia, 1913, regarding his experiences in detention, underground activities using a false identity and in Bratislava

Testimony of Yurai Rebs, born in Holic, Czechoslovakia, 1913, regarding his experiences in detention, underground activities using a false identity and in Bratislava Witness's father has a Doctorate in Law, is Deputy Mayor of Holic and leader of the Neolog Jewish community; relations with the local population; education; Maccabi Hatzair activities; earns a Doctorate in Law, 1939. Outbreak of the war; rise of the fascists to power under Tiso; anti-Jewish legislation; curfew; restrictions on employment; aliya training activities; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel thwarted by the Yugoslavians; help to his father to liquidate his businesses; return to Bratislava; start of deportations of the Slovakian Jews, 1942; Hlinka Guards activities; draft of young men to labor camps; Communist partisan activities, 1944; liberation of inmates from labor camps; Slovak National Uprising; German occupation; suppression of the Slovak National Uprising; underground activities; transfer of Joint financial assistance via the Red Cross then via underground members; obtains forged documents; underground activities using a false identity; illegally crosses the border to Hungary; capture by the Gestapo twice and escape; meets with Dr. Kasztner; smuggling people into Vienna; smuggling his parents and brother into Budapest; activities with the Joint. Aliya to Israel, 1950.