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My mother was completely apolitical, and my father was a socialist, a leftist. Right after the war, he joined the Communist Party [13] convinced that all bad things were now at an end. In 1949, when the nationalizations began [14] and the anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist wave began, he definitely changed his attitude. My parents basically got along well with their neighbors. Our neighbors weren’t Jews. My father was communicative, and was able to get along with people very well, and you could say that on the whole he was well-liked. Our best friends were one Jewish family that lived in Kokava, Dr. Steiner’s family. My parents were friends mainly with them. They used to visit each other regularly. But they also had non-Jewish friends, and had very good relations with them.
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Slovakia
Interview
Tibor Engel