Testimony of Arie Yan Polak, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding, in the Bratislava Ghetto and using a false identity in Karlova

Testimony of Arie Yan Polak, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding, in the Bratislava Ghetto and using a false identity in Karlova Assimilated family; life before the war; displays of antisemitism of a German family. His family receives knowledge regarding an approaching deportation of Jews; his family finds a hiding place; move to his grandmother in Hungary; deportation to the Bratislava Ghetto; Bratislava Ghetto life including his father's dismissal from work; restrictions on movement; his parents' decision to escape from the ghetto; obtaining of forged documents for the witness and his mother; escape to Karlova; his father finds a hiding place in a nearby village; meetings with his father at night; Germans search the hiding place; retreat of the Germans; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Bratislava; life in Bratislava; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1949; life on Kibbutz Ein HaShofet.