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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

Memoirs of Moshe Mozes Taler, born in Stropkov in 1917, about his experiences in the Sixth Battalion in Slovakia from 1940 on, escaping from the battalion, hiding in Stropkov and Budapest, and imprisonment in Sopron until liberation in 1945 - forcible hacking of Mozes Taler's beard and sidelocks on a military base in 1942, as told by Jakob (Eugen) Jakubovič, who was at the base when it happened; - memoirs of Moshe Moses Tahler, documented from his telephone conversation with Uri Jakubovič (Jakob Jakubovič's son) in 1998: Inducted into the Sixth Battalion in February 1940; pausing in Cemerne; moving to...

File Number : 12527

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent from Slovakia to Ervin Weiner in Israel, between 1939 and 1941, and after the war

Letters sent from Slovakia to Ervin Weiner in Israel, between 1939 and 1941, and after the war The letters were sent by: - Acquaintances / family in Nitra and Bratislava - Blanka in Érsekújvár - His parents, Sidi and Naftali Weiner, his brothers, Ďulo and Janko, and his sister, Ilka, in Travná - Correspondence between Ervin Weiner in Plzeň, Banská Bystrica, and Prague and his brother Ďulo Weiner in Plzeň, Nitra, Lískovec, Prague, and Bratislava between 1945 and 1948. Also in the file: A letter from Moshe (Ervin) Weiner from Israel in 1946 after his discharge from the British Army Czechoslovak...

File Number : 5302

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter

Language : Slovak, Czech, English, German, Yiddish

Testimonies and memoirs of thirty-two Slovakian Jews, 1993–1995, about their experiences in the "sixth labor brigade" and the labor camps and about their joining the Slovakian uprising in 1940–1945

- record of decision by the Slovak defense minister to delay the deportation of Jews serving in a labor brigade, set for April 11, 1942, to the end of the deportation period - articles appearing in the Slovak press in 1995 about the "sixth labor brigade"; - lists of Jews who had served in the "sixth labor brigade" and had been injured or killed in the Slovakian uprising in 1944–1945. Submitter's remarks: The material was gathered by Martin Hay (Hebrew name: Arye Hay), born in 1921 in Slovakia, who had served in the "sixth labor brigade."

File Number : 190

Type of Material : Article, Statements of Testimony

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, Czech, English

Memoirs of Herman Heu (Chanoch Hai), born in Michalovce in 1920, regarding his service in the Sixth Labor Battalion, his escape and experiences under a false identity in Slovakia during 1941-1945

Memoirs of Herman Heu (Chanoch Hai), born in Michalovce in 1920, regarding his service in the Sixth Labor Battalion, his escape and experiences under a false identity in Slovakia during 1941-1945. Drafted into the Sixth Labor Battalion on 3 March 1941; joining Company 22 and training in Humenné; wearing Slovakian military uniform without a belt; military discipline without rights; learning to pave roads; unloading weapons cargo from train cars; transfer to Svatý Peter to pave an access road to an airport; a rumor in March 1942 about the deportation of Jews to Poland; escaping to his home to part from his...

File Number : 11721

Type of Material : Genealogy, Marriage Certificate, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Work Permit, Memoirs, Official Documentation, Birth Certificate, Identity Card

Language : Slovak, Hebrew, German, Hungarian

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