Testimony of Paul Pavel Hochfelder, born in Zilina, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Zilina, Nitra, in hiding in Kalnica, in forests and in other places

Testimony of Paul Pavel Hochfelder, born in Zilina, Czechoslovakia, 1927, regarding his experiences in Zilina, Nitra, in hiding in Kalnica, in forests and in other places Life before the war; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement and the Maccabi movement. Persecution of the Jews, 1940; anti-Jewish legislation; expulsion from the high school; attends a Jewish high school; wears a yellow badge; deportation of his sister to Auschwitz, March 1942; smuggling of food to Jewish deportees who are located beneath a railroad station, May-June 1942; receives a permit to remain in Zilina due to his father's work as a government engineer; move to Nitra with his parents due to his father's work, July 1942; life in Nitra; underground activities in the Beitar movement; escape to Zilina, December 1942; life in Zilina; disappearance of friends and acquaintances; relief activities by the Jews' center; outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; life in hiding in a forest; makes escapes to Kalnica in order to obtain food; changes his hiding place; escape to Kalnica; life in Kalnica while hidden by a farmer; liberation by the Red Army, April 1945. Aliya to Israel, 1949.