Testimony of Yitzhak Milder, born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Bratislava, Sered, Oranienburg, Berlin and other places

Testimony of Yitzhak Milder, born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in Michalovce, Bratislava, Sered, Oranienburg, Berlin and other places Life before the war; witness' father's work as manager of the local bank. Anti-Jewish decrees from late 1939; evening curfews; yellow badge; transfer to living quarters on a side street; arrival of refugees from Germany, 1940; compulsory handing over of family jewelry to the authorities; expulsion from school; transfer to classes in a Jewish school; Beitar activities; witness' father is removed from his job; increase in antisemitism; Aryanization; hiding of youth with assistance from a priest in anticipation of deportation of youth, March 1942; hiding of youth; help from a priest; visits to the church; rescue from deportation; escape to Michalova, May 1942; transfer to Bratislava; witness' father's labor registering Jewish property in the Slovakian Finance Ministry office; return of the family's jewelry due to his father's forged document; distribution of food to Jews in hiding; deportation of his uncle to Majdanek; rescue from deportation due to his father's forged document, October 1944; deportation to Sered, December 1944; attitude of the SS men; deportation to Oranienburg; camp life including labor cleaning; transfer to Berlin Lichtenrade; camp life including clearing away rubble and help from the overseer; transfer to Berlin Spreehagen; transfer back to Oranienburg; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; death march to Wittstock, April 1945; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Bratislava; fate of his mother; aliya to Israel, 1949.