Judita Haasová

I know about that way back only, that they walked. Here and there some people gave them some clothes, some food. Then someone gave them a bike. They went three, so they exchanged along the way on that bike. Then some russian soldiers approached by jeep and were offered to take them. Finally, they loaded the bike and left. So they kept walking. I don't know where they got on the train and came to Nové Zámky. And from there they walked again.

"I only know that much. Not from him either, but from others. That the grandfather was the rabbi last time in Čičov. They had 13 living children. But I don't know the names or when they were born. I don't know anything about it, because my father never talked about his family. Before the war my father was married. He lost his wife and child, his mother-in-law and his whole family. He was unwilling to talk about it. I only know this from the neighbors. We lived in Svätý Peter near Komárno. Therea father lived before the war with his first family. And then we also lived there until 1965. ”

My father was in several labor camps. So I heard that since 1942. My father was a baker, so he had such a job there as well. He was not on the front line. I know he escaped in 1944. When he heard that the Germans were taking Jews from this area to camps, he tried to escape. He ran away. He wanted to hide his family, but he couldn't find them. He hid in such woods near the village. One of the neighbors came for him in the car. Neighbor hid my father under the hay and then hid it on the attic. He had a small farm in Svätý Peter, there were a couple of cows and some two horses. I don't know how he let them know, but they came for him and hid him. What I know about my father's family, I know from these neighbors. Then the Germans came to the village. They were in front the Germans and their father and another man was in the attic. So they tried to take away as much food as they could. Then the russian army came to the village, so the father joined the russian army.

Galanta is an orthodox. All holidays and church services were on Friday evening and Saturday morning. So there was a Jewish life there. In Komárno less, but in Galanta it was normal. I had a mother-in-law who had a kosher kitchen for the rest of her life. Then, since 1998, I have been the head nurse at the Ohel David retirement home. We started it there with the first director. My children still worked with the Jewish community. My daughter worked with the youth, so was my son. She also worked as a chairwoman in a youth organization. The son created the newspaper. He also founded Delet with Mišo Szatmáry. My daughter also worked at the Spielberg Foundation. She also organized The Spielberg Foundation in Hungary. Recordings and the like that. So we lived with it. It lived in Galanta with that. Although the synagogue was demolished, I experienced it, but it was a prayer house.