Testimony of Miriam Gertruda Trudi (Noiman) Leichner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Piestany, Nitra and Merasice

Testimony of Miriam Gertruda Trudi (Noiman) Leichner, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Piestany, Nitra and Merasice Life before the war; life in Piestany including attending a local school; Maccabi Hatzair activities. Restrictions on Jews; escape to Nitra, 1942; life in Nitra including conversion to Christianity; attends a non-Jewish school in a monastery; escape to their father in Merasice with her brother, 1943; life in Merasice including continuation of her education in Nitra; deportation of her parents, grandmother and female cousins, 1944; life in the home of a farmer woman; transfer of her brother to the home of another farmer woman; life with the farmer woman with the knowledge of local people and Germans; her brother's service as an assistant to the priest; end of the war. Move to the home of a Jewish woman; return to Nitra; life in Nitra including joining a convent and embracing Christianity; attempts of Jewish friends to return her to Judaism; contacts with Hashomer Hatzair; aliya training in Kosice; move to a farm in Prague; aliya to Israel, 1949.