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Johana Lichtensteinova, née Urban. We called her Hana. For many years, she worked as a member of the Piestany city council, where she was in charge of the social commission. Her husband, Erno Lichtenstein, was the superintendent of a large farm belonging to Count Erdody. The farm was located in the municipality of Rakovice, about eight kilometers from Piestany. They had one son. His name was Leo. He was quite a bit older than I. In the second half of the 1930s, Leo finished his medicine studies in Prague. He was then in hiding there during the entire war, and managed to survive. Before the war, he changed his name to Leo Liska. He helped us a lot then, and when we were returning from the concentration camps as well. He examined me in Prague. Back then, we were there for about two weeks, but I'll get to that later. Later I used to play competitive basketball, among others for Slovan Bratislava. When our team went to Prague for a league game, I'd always call him. "Leo, I'm here, do you have time?" When he had time, he always came to see me. He was accustomed to slipping me a hundred, so that I'd have some money to "see the town". His mother was murdered in a concentration camp.
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Slovakia
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Ladislav Urban