Alice L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Alice L., who was born in Brezova? pod Bradlom, Slovakia in 1926. She recounts attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; Slovak independence in March 1939; anti-Jewish legislation and harassment; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); living with an aunt in another town, then with an uncle; illegally entering Hungary with two girls; brief arrest; traveling to Budapest; reunion with her aunt, uncle, brother, and mother several weeks later; German invasion of Hungary in March 1944; obtaining papers as non-Jews; illegally entering Slovakia in May; acquiring false papers with assistance from the underground; German invasion; capture; deportation to Sered; transfer to Theresienstadt in December; slave labor hauling lumber; increased rations for three days during a Red Cross inspection; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; reunion with her mother and brother, then an aunt in Bratislava; and studying in Prague. Ms. L. notes the deaths of many relatives in Auschwitz; non-Jews who hid her mother in Slovakia; attending survivor gatherings in Israel; and sharing some of her experiences with her children.

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