Micha Dor

“After the liberation, did they return to Bratislava? No, they went to Topoľčany. And there they met the famous post-war pogrom, the post-war. My parents, my brothers, my father. Do you know anything more about it or did you learn something about it? I know. When it started, my father still managed to shout to his mother to hide under the bed with the children and he ran out into the street. There they caught up with him, smashing his head with an iron rod. With the brain in his hands ... he ran away. For the rest of my life, almost every night. It can be said that every night, he screamed from sleep. This was ... this was part of my childhood. It wasn't a human roar, it was like a wounded animal. Every night, probably as a result of this incident. They left Topoľčany and moved to Bratislava. And there we lived, there I was born. In Bratislava or in terms of property, or we know that during the war there was an Aryanization. You even got to your original possessions, didn't you? I don't know, I don't know anything about that. I do not think."

"The only one, the only thing I heard from any of my parents who commented on this topic at all. There was no more talk about it at home. And can you talk about what you learned indirectly? They were deported to Sereď, from Sereď to Terezín. In Sereď ... the father, as an accountant, had the status of what was called, an economic Jew, and quasi-protected his family. That is, the parents of his wife, my mother, and their parents, by not including them in the transport. When the camp commander came with him and said, "Jew you protect too many Jews, you have to give up like someone." So my father had a terrible dilemma, in fact it depended on whom he would send to the transport. And unfortunately, as they say, the shirt is closer than a coat, so he gave up my mother's parents, not his own parents. Of course, they never forgave him, but there was no other option. So grandparents on your mother's side were deported to where? To Terezín. Also to Terezín. And later the whole family. Once again, when were they transported to Terezín? When ... my grandparents from my mother side, I don't know exactly. The rest of the family, my parents and my brothers, forty-four. So the last wave of deportation, after the suppression of the SNP. More or less, yes. Again, as far as I know, because I do not know this from home, it was not talked about at home, these data are quite such… Do you know or have you learned indirectly about what their life in Terezín looked like? In Terezín ... and I know what their life looked like in Sereď. Can you talk about it? I can. Father ... father cost his life almost twice. Once, a boy was rude to a warden, who beat him to death. It was necessary to bury him outside the camp. As it is known, to bury a man-Jew, it took ten men to pray the so-called min jan and the father was with the ten and of course guaranteed to the camp commander that everyone would return, although inside he knew it probably would not. And really two or three boys ran away, they used it as an escape. His father was beaten to death as punishment for failing to keep his word, and three escaped from the top ten. That was once. For the second time, he and probably some other board members were getting lists. So the night before the transport he was supposed to go to people, so those people were supposed to come to the train the next day. And my father, instead of going home and taking care of my mother, my mother, and my two young siblings, my brothers ... the day before, the night before, he went to those parents, to warn them, you have to go to the transport tomorrow. Do something. They figured out ... that the camp management was supposed to get here just the ones missing. They didn't know exactly who and how. I read that, again someone wrote to the camp in Sereď that ten men who were jewish leaders, naked for three days, stood in the snow to reveal someone who is the one who warns the Jews of the danger of being sent to transport. Nobody confessed and somehow it just passed. ”