Testimony of Katia (Lorberova) Carmi, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Michalovce, Kosice, in hiding, with the partisans and other places

Testimony of Katia (Lorberova) Carmi, born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding her experiences in Michalovce, Kosice, in hiding, with the partisans and other places Life in Michalovce before the war; from a well-to-do traditional family; attends a Slovak school. Termination of her father's employment; handing in property; travel restrictions and Aryanization, 1939-1940; attends a Jewish school, 1940-1942; yellow badge, 1941; deportations, spring 1942; her oldest sister evades deportation; capture of her sister after she is informed on; escape to Kosice with the family; life in Kosice including obtaining documents for her mother; separation from her father; visits from her father; German occupation, March 1944; life on the tobacco farm of a well-to-do Jew; outbreak of the "Slovakian Uprising", August 1944; finds a hiding place; joins the partisans; partisan activities as a courier; liberation, March 1945. Reunion with her sister; information regarding the murder of her family; aliya to Israel, 1949.