Memoirs of Stella (Neuman) Maros, born in Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Ruzomberok, Zilina, Kalamenová, in hiding in Lubochna and more

Memoirs of Stella (Neuman) Maros, born in Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Ruzomberok, Zilina, Kalamenová, in hiding in Lubochna and more 

Memoirs of Stella (Neuman) Maros, born in Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, 1914, regarding her experiences in Ruzomberok, Zilina, Kalamenová, in hiding in Lubochna and more 

Original 40 pages/frames 

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.