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 1942; release of many of them due to the intervention of Ferdinand Klinovsky, the district commander (known as Ferdik); Ferdik alerts families before deportations; initial deportation of Jewish families including that of Stella and her parents to Zilina, 26 April 1942; life in Zilina at the center of the deportations; her sister obtains release papers for the family at the Central Economic Office (UHU) in Bratislava; escape to the family home; receiving alerts from Ferdik and escape together with her family from the house during the deportations; escape to Kalamenová; life in Kalamenová; labor as a housemaid for the family of a train engineer; escape to Lubochna; life in Lubochna including in hiding in an old hotel; release of her grandparents from Novaky camp with the help of Ferdik; death of Ferdik, officially from being shot during a hunt (was murdered, according to her opinion), 1943; deportation, 22 October 1942; cessation of the deportations; decision by her father that in order to rescue her Stella should marry Dr. Dezsko Maros, released from Novaky camp; marriage and escape to Lukovistia, 04 November 1942; resumption of the deportations, summer 1944; escape together with the Maros family to the mountains; escape back to Lukovistia; additional escape to Babinec, December 1942 [?]; life in Babinec being hidden by a flourmill owner, active in the underground; escape together with the Maros family to Lukovistia due to the battles in the area; being hidden in Lukovistia in a pit by the farmer, Istók; liberation by the Red Army, 21 January 1945. Fate of the Neuman family: Death of most of the family members following the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising; the wife of her uncle from Zilina together with her daughters; deportation of sons-in-law and grandchildren to Auschwitz, August 1944; one uncle and his family were shot to death in a mass grave in Bystricka; her parents together with her sister, Marta, were deported to Sered camp; from there her mother and her sister were transferred to Ravensbrueck; her father was transferred to Sachsenhausen; her mother and Mart were transferred to Bergen-Belsen, late February 1945; death of her mother in Bergen-Belsen, 19 March 1945; liberation of Marta, 15 April 1945; death of her father on the train on the way back from Germany. Fate of the Maros family: Dr. Maros, together with other physicians were deported to Novaky camp, 1942; his transfer together with his mother in a transport to Zilina and his rescue at the last minute; his escape back to Novaky camp; last meeting with his brother, Palko; deportation of his brother to Majdanek; receives last signs of life from his brother, 1943 and 1944; deportation of his sister. Fate of other Jews of Ruzomberok: - Jurko Guttmann was taken out of the hospital and deported to Auschwitz where he perished; - Ivan Wittenberg, only son of the physician of Ruzomberok and Ervin Munk were killed during the first days of the Slovak Uprising; - Hanzi Pór was murdered in Staré Hory on account of his eviction from a bunker by partisans as part of a group of persons hiding there; -Alexander Maltenfort was seriously injured, was then abandoned by the partisans, was captured by the German Army, deported to Sered camp, where he died.