Viera Fischerová

"So, as soon as you came to Bratislava, you wanted to be a part of this community. Gradually. And yes, consciously. Yes, I wanted to. Because I also had non jewish friends there, I accepted them, not that I didn't want to, but I wanted to have jewish friends as well. Oh, well. Okay, so. And then he went to our boarding school for lunch and no ... first, we met very positively, during the philharmonic concert. We were at the concert. He didn't go, I went ... to the concert, with Kučera and with the other ones ... And then Kahanová came if we didn't want to meet a jewish boy. Well, why not, we want to meet him... that he wants to meet us. So he came because he had no jewish friends at all. My husband is so ... but not very sociable. He has colleagues like that and that was all. And where is he from? He is originally from Levoča, but then everywhere, you hear it then. Well, then he came to us as a young assistant. He used to come to our boarding school for lunch and there were such long lines of people ... so when he was standing there, he showed me to come. And when I was standing there, he came. So we are… Right, right. That's how it evolved. And when did you get married? At sixty-six. I remember that. Well, then you had a great mood here in Bratislava, in the sixties. Not at all. Not? No. All my friends had left. However, many left in the sixties. Well, and ... but not yet at sixty-six. Ours, but they left. But later. Well, at sixty-six, seven. It broke up. We broke up. We had a wedding in Kežmarok, but if you saw ... Secretly, secretly. Kipur, people came from Vienna. A pair. Evička was there, Jana and these. And those from Vienna. They like micve, so there were eleven people. They sang out loud and my father šalala, ša, ša. Well, we had a wedding by jewish tradition. Well, where did you get it? We had such a strange apartment, a huge room, then there was one hall and then another room. So there were twenty people. You don't think it was I don't know what. "

"And so my father had an exception because of working with gasoline. He came from thirteen children as I said and was the third of the youngest. And interestingly, he ran the business. He led the factory, and he got the exception ... that is, to my mother and to me, I was born then in those times, so the three of us. But everyone else, his older sisters who already had small children, married siblings who lived near in the area, took them all. They took everyone. We stayed, one married aunt was hiding, that's from Tečer's mother ... She was a sister from father's side, and one younger brother, with whom father was together in a concentration camp. Well, second happiness, so the second time, that's how they caught us, that is, how they caught our father. We were walking down the street and suddenly two gentlemen came and said, “Are you Mr. Schloss? Yes. Then come with us. '' So, he left and my mother was already afraid to go to the apartment. And that was in the early evening. She went with me ... I had a year ... up and down, she didn't know where. And she walked, there is such a village near Kežmarok, such a small town, Ľubica. And in that Ľubica there, she got to one... one beggar for one night, and then she learned that one family was still helping the jews there. So she went there and they really took her there and they ... the family also made contact with others and the aunty, the friend, learned about us... from Eva Becker's mother. So she sent an errand boy for us, a young man, and we went to the Tatras for a week. So we were walking at night, and the boy, where he could have hid us for some time during the day ... then he was going to look for something to eat, so then we came to the aunty. ”