Testimony of Rachel Edita (Libovitz) Osherov, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child while in hiding in Zilina and using a false identity in Turciansky Svaty Martin

Testimony of Rachel Edita (Libovitz) Osherov, born in Mukacevo, Czechoslovakia, 1934, regarding her experiences as a child while in hiding in Zilina and using a false identity in Turciansky Svaty Martin Life in Zilina before the war; traditional family. Deportation of her father, March 1942; escape during the night with her mother to a non-Jewish woman friend, March 1944; life in hiding in her relatives' home in the center of the city; life in hiding with nine people in a closed room on the upper floor; her relatives' life on the lower floor while using forged documents; arrival of gendarmes to the home; escape with her mother and sister while using forged documents; escape to Turciansky Svaty Martin; life in Turciansky Svaty Martin while disguised as non-Jewish women; liberation, May 1945. Return to Zilina; life in Zilina; activities in the Maccabi Hatzair movement; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliyah, 1949.