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 

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

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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 alerted by a policeman; a friend of her husband from before the start of deportations; repeated escape to a hiding place during the deportations; escape together with her husband to Budapest, 1942; life in Budapest using a false non-Jewish identity; meeting a Jewish acquaintance from Bratislava on the street who had served as an informer and betrayed Jews (following the war this man was put on trial and convicted); rise to power of the Arrow Cross Party, 15 October 1944; deportation of the Jews from safe houses and their murder at the edge of the Danube River; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945; return to Bratislava. Fate of the Fischer family: - The sisters of Piroska together with their families perished in Auschwitz; her brother and his family perished in Majdanek; - Ella Bernfeld, 55, was deported from Bratislava, 1942; her son, József, 13, deported, 1943; her daughter, Ráchel, 16, deported from Komárom, 1944; - Frádele Quittner, 49, and Ignácz Quittner, 58, deported from Slovakia, 1942; - Rézele Klein, 46, and Ráchel Klein, 4, deported from Komárom, 1944 and Ferenc Klein, 53, volunteered for the Army; - Mirjam Malke Ganz, 35, deported, 1943, Karl Ganz, 50 and Michael Manek Ganz, 8; Pinchás Fischer, 48, and his wife Ella, 30, deported from Bratislava, 1942; Zuck family members who perished in the Holocaust: - Jakob Maas, 40; Margit (Zuck) Maas, 40, and Josefina Maas, 18, deported from Vienna to Ukraine, 1938; - Ilus Zuck, 35, and Agnes Zuck, 6, from Komárom, deported, 1944; - Miklós Zuck, 24, and his wife, Miklósné Zuck, 22, from Nyitra, deported to Majdanek, 1943; - Mose Hunwald, 44, deported, 1944; - Josefine Váry, 18, and Lipót Váry, 18, deported, 1942; - Káti Pick, 60, from Nyitra, deported, 1943. Included in the file: - Birth certificate of the non-Jew, József Ulbert, born in Budapest, Hungary, whose identity was adopted by Smuel Zuck; - Photograph of Piroska Zuck; - Correspondence between Piroska in Nahariya and the Yad Vashem Directorate, Jerusalem, regarding her request to receive a monetary reward for her participation in the Holocaust memoirs writing competition, 1960.