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Testimony of Chava (Veis) Mordchovitz, born in Soporna, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences in hiding in Hlohovec, Soporna and Hungary

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Testimony of Chava (Veis) Mordchovitz, born in Soporna, Czechoslovakia, 1935, regarding her experiences in hiding in Hlohovec, Soporna and Hungary Outbreak of the war; unsuccessful attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939; move to Hlohovec; life in hiding, alternately in Hlohovec and Soporna; smuggled into Hungary with her brother, 1943; her brother is placed in an orphanage in Budapest; deportation of her brother to Auschwitz, and his murder; German occupation, March 1944; return to Czechoslovakia; identified by the Slovakian police commander; hidden in exchange for a promise to give testimony to his character at the end of the war; liberation by the Red Army. Studies; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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7157991
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Chava
Khava
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Mordchovitz
Mordkhovitz
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Veis
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05/02/1935
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Soporna, Czechoslovakia
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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06/05/08
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06/05/08
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Mordchovitz Chava
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection