Testimony of Yitzchak Aldor Gerhard, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in hiding in a factory in Bratislava

Testimony of Yitzchak Aldor Gerhard, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding his experiences in hiding in a factory in Bratislava Childhood in the city in an established Zionist family. Persecution, from October 1938; antisemitism on the streets; caring for Polish refugees by the community; taking away his father's business license, 1941; yellow badge; confiscation of property; violence perpetrated by Slovak policemen and Hitler-Jugend; prohibition on entering public places; anti-Jewish propaganda; his father's assistance to those deported to provincial towns; deportation of his brother to Poland, spring 1942; in hiding, 1943; bribery and his father being accepted for work as a porter for the city surveyor; obtains "essential to the economy" certificate; obtaining food for the family; escape of the family to the nearby forest during the "Aktion", February, 1944; move to a hiding place in a factory in Bratislava after about three days; 17 Jews in hiding in the attic; assistance from a Polish nanny who had worked in his uncle's house and from one of the workers; crowding; hunger; illness of witness; religious life; faith; liberation by the Red Army while in difficult physical shape, April 1945. Life after the war, aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.