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Testimony of Zipora Dak, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Kosice Mesto and Bratislava during the war

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Testimony of Zipora Dak, born in Kosice Mesto, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Kosice Mesto and Bratislava during the war Her childhood and family background in Kosice Mesto; attends the Neolog school and a Czech school; religious holidays; membership in the Zionist club; work as a teacher in the Hungarian school; move to Budapest and work in an orphanage; return to Kosice Mesto; confiscations. Hungarian occupation and the change in the economic situation; registration of the Jews' names; escape to Bratislava; life in Bratislava; memories of Gisi Fleischmann; witness' husband is active in the Slovakian underground; move to Budapest; receives a Turkish visa from emissaries from Eretz Israel; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel via Romania and Turkey. Life on Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar and in Jerusalem; return visit in Kosice Mesto.
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7303239
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Tzipora
Zipora
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Dak
Dek
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1914
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Myslava, 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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04/08/08
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04/08/08
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Dak Zipora
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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