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Biography of Pavol Kun, born in Velká Bytča, and murdered in Buchenwald in March 1945

Biography of Pavol Kun, born in Velká Bytča, and murdered in Buchenwald in March 1945 - Pavol Kun, born on 06 July 1926, grew up in an assimilated family in Velká Bytča. At the age of 14 he was forbidden to study by the laws against Jews in Slovakia; social activity of Pavol in a youth movement; his father declared a required worker for the state economy; work of Pavol as an apprentice locksmith in a factory run by his father; hiding of Pavol and his family in the forests in 1944; deportation of the family to Auschwitz after being informed on in October 1944; murder of Pavol in Buchenwald on 08 March ...

File Number : 84

Type of Material : Poem/song, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Slovak, German

Report on the functioning of the Nováky, Sered, and Vyhne labor camps and Jewish labor centers in Slovakia between January and June 1943

Report on the functioning of the Nováky, Sered, and Vyhne labor camps and Jewish labor centers in Slovakia between January and June 1943 - Report from July 1943 on the management and administrative organization of the Nováky, Sered, and Vyhne labor camps; management of the camps by the Commissioner of the Slovak Ministry of the Interior; cooperation with Ustredna Zidov – UZ; security supervision by the Helinke Guard – HG; - Map of Slovakia with markings of the labor camps and labor centers from July 1943; - Statistical reports on the distribution of Jews in the labor camps, by sex and age, between January...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Statistical Reports

Language : Slovak

Letters written by Marta Waldner from Bratislava and Auschwitz Birkenau to her parents between 1941 and 1942

Letters written by Marta Waldner from Bratislava and Auschwitz Birkenau to her parents between 1941 and 1942 - Correspondence between Marta Waldner from Bratislava and her father Adolf, who is in the camp on the island of Rodi from 1941; - Last letters from Marta from Auschwitz Birkenau to her mother Berta and her father Adolf from November 1942 (translation from German). Also in the file: - Letters from Berta from Bratislava to her husband Adolf from 1942; circumstances of the deportation of their daughter Marta; - Experiences of Marta Waldner, born in Bratislava in 1925, as written by her relative...

File Number : 78

Type of Material : Letter, Photograph

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of the Czech diplomat, Ján Spišiak, from the period during which he served in the Slovak Embassy in Budapest, regarding his assistance to the Slovak Jews who escaped to Hungary, 1939-1944

Memoirs of the Czech diplomat, Ján Spišiak, from the period during which he served in the Slovak Embassy in Budapest, regarding his assistance to the Slovak Jews who escaped to Hungary, 1939-1944 Ján Spišiak was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations in 2006.

File Number : 5903

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak

Memoirs of Stella (Neuman) Maros, born in Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Ruzomberok, Zilina, Kalamenová, in hiding in Lubochna and more

Memoirs of Stella (Neuman) Maros, born in Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Ruzomberok, Zilina, Kalamenová, in hiding in Lubochna and more Life before the war; daughter of a well-to-do family; her father employed as a clerk; studies together with her sister, Marta; Establishment of an independent Slovak State; anti-Jewish legislation including ban on studies; Aryanization; cessation of studies; illegal work; work in the Jewish community including registration of the local Jewish population, January 1942; concentration of male Jews, ages 15-35, by the Hlinka Guard, 23 March...

File Number : 125

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak

Memoirs of Piroska (Fischer) Zuck, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, and using a false identity in Budapest

Memoirs of Piroska (Fischer) Zuck, born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding her experiences in Bratislava, and using a false identity in Budapest Life before the war; from a large family; Orthodox school for girls established by her father; Establishment of an independent Slovak state, 1939; anti-Jewish legislation including a ban on owning radios and fur coats; death of her father, 1942; marriage to Smuel Zuck from Nyitra and rescue from deportation of unmarried Jewish women, 21 March 1942; deportation of her sisters and her brother together with their families to Auschwitz, 1942; being...

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Eli Igor Stahl, born in Bánovce, regarding his and his family's experiences in Novaky camp, and while in hiding in the mountains, 1942-1945

- Deportation of Igor and his mother Alžbeta to Nováky camp, 04/1945; struggle to not be included on the list of deportees to Poland; establishment of the children's school in the camp; escape from the camp following the Slovak National Uprising on 29/08/1944; following the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising, Igor and his mother hide in the mountains with a group of partisans; struggle for survival under conditions of freezing weather, snow and hunger; liberation, 04/04/1945; return home, and receipt of the news that Igor and his mother are the sole survivors of the Stahl family; - His father Viteb...

File Number : 4980

Type of Material : Names, Postcard, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

Memoirs of Katarina (Goldbergerová) Pazerini, born in Prešov, regarding her experiences during 1939-1945

- Life of the Goldberger family in Prešov; establishment of "Independent Slovakia" in 03/1939; start of the persecution of the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; confiscation of Jewish property; order given to Katarina Goldbergerová to present herself to the authorities for labor, 21/03/1942; separation from her parents and from her brother Juraj; concentration of young women from Prešov and the surrounding area who are ages 16-25, and their transfer to a concentration place in Poprad; confiscation of valuables by members of the Hlinka Guard; marriage proposal by Miki Pazerini, with the aim of removing Kati...

File Number : 4666

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Hebrew

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945

Memoirs of Klára Lavičková and Alžbeta Rosová, sisters née Brodi, born in Zabokreky, about their experiences in 1939–1945 Memoirs of Klára Lavičková, pp. 2–14: Establishment of independent Slovakia in March 1939; anti-Jewish rules and regulations; Klára is fired from her job with a Jewish-owned company due to the company’s “Aryanization”; working as a seamstress in Bielice; anti-Jewish atmosphere in Zabokreky; young Jews mobilized for service in labor camps under Slovakian Army auspices; Klára deported to the Patronka camp on March 27, 1942, and then, several days later, to Auschwitz; shaving of hair;...

File Number : 3680

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Slovak, Czech

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File Number : 2435

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

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