Testimony of Yaffa Valeria (Shvartz) Fahn, born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Trnava and in hiding in Piestany and Gest

Testimony of Yaffa Valeria (Shvartz) Fahn, born in Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding her experiences in Trnava and in hiding in Piestany and Gest Life before the war. Anti-Jewish restrictions including the confiscation of property; yellow badge; attempts to evade deportation with young people, March 1942; life in hiding in Piestany; evades deportation after obtaining forged documents; German occupation; deportations; search for a hiding place for her family; escape to Gest; finds a hiding place in the home of farmers Josef Peskde and his wife; life in hiding in a cellar; liberation by the Red Army, April 1945. Return to her family's home in Trnava; life in Trnava; displays of antisemitism; aliya to Israel on the "Galilah" ship, 1949.