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The teacher had been forced to give her to an orphanage, because the neighbors had threatened, that when the war was over, they would say the baby was fathered by a German. The orphanage had been emptied. A peasant couple came, who had no children, and they had given the girl to them.
It took a while before they found her. That was my sister’s daughter, whom we buried six weeks ago. My sister’s son is living in the Slovakian Komarno, and is an agricultural engineer. He has two children.
After the war, my sister and her family returned to Bratislava, and then they were driven into the eastern part of Czechoslovakia. My brother in law, of Slovak nationality, was an attorney, but didn’t finish his studies, but with a family, he had to live somehow. They placed him in the Hungarian region, in the little town of Hurbanovo.
He got an apartment there. Next to Hurbanovo is Bajc. In Bajc, one of the biggest Czechoslovakian state farms was founded. My brother in law wasn’t a party member. He worked as a tradesman, in a vice director’s post.
My sister was employed as foreign department director at Cedok [The largest travel office, whose headquarters was founded in Prague in 1920. The name is an abbreviation of Ceskoslovenska Dopravni Kancelar or ‘Czechoslovakian Travel Office’]. They lived in Hurbanovo until their retirement.
My sister and her husband didn’t keep anything [Jewish traditions]. If I recall correctly, Judaism wasn’t talked about at all in our house, but as I understand it, my brother-in-law considered himself a good Jew. But just from the ethnic point of view. They didn’t teach their children anything. The son and the daughter both live in mixed marriages. My daughter also. The whole family is full of them.
It took a while before they found her. That was my sister’s daughter, whom we buried six weeks ago. My sister’s son is living in the Slovakian Komarno, and is an agricultural engineer. He has two children.
After the war, my sister and her family returned to Bratislava, and then they were driven into the eastern part of Czechoslovakia. My brother in law, of Slovak nationality, was an attorney, but didn’t finish his studies, but with a family, he had to live somehow. They placed him in the Hungarian region, in the little town of Hurbanovo.
He got an apartment there. Next to Hurbanovo is Bajc. In Bajc, one of the biggest Czechoslovakian state farms was founded. My brother in law wasn’t a party member. He worked as a tradesman, in a vice director’s post.
My sister was employed as foreign department director at Cedok [The largest travel office, whose headquarters was founded in Prague in 1920. The name is an abbreviation of Ceskoslovenska Dopravni Kancelar or ‘Czechoslovakian Travel Office’]. They lived in Hurbanovo until their retirement.
My sister and her husband didn’t keep anything [Jewish traditions]. If I recall correctly, Judaism wasn’t talked about at all in our house, but as I understand it, my brother-in-law considered himself a good Jew. But just from the ethnic point of view. They didn’t teach their children anything. The son and the daughter both live in mixed marriages. My daughter also. The whole family is full of them.
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Slovakia
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Katarina Löfflerova